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HON. JAMES M. CURLEY 
Mayor of Boston 1914-1918 



The Driving Clubs of 
Greater Boston 




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JOHN W. LINNEHAN AND EDWARD E. COGSWELL 






DEDICATION 

To the Lovers of the Horse 
and to the promotion of 
Speedway and Matinee sport 



Copyright. 1914 
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The Dorchester 
Gentlemen's Driving Club 

1899 1914 




FRANKLIN FIELD SPEEDWAY— THE START 




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As the outcome of several chance 
meetings of the horsemen of Hyde 
Park, Milton and Dorchester in 
the several blacksmith shops, and 
especially in the shop of E. P. 
Denn and the stable office of H. P. Gallup, 
on Barnes Street, Dorchester, was organized 
on April 26, 1899, the Dorchester Gentlemen's 
Driving Club. It was the first driving club m 
this country whose by-laws and constitution 
called for weekly meeting of its members and 
weekly racing of horses for ribbons. 

The first election of officers was held mi 
Alay 10, 1899, and showed over a hundred 
horse owners enrolled on its membership list. 
The election resulted in the following board 
of officers : President, Charles L. Young ; 
first vice-president, S. Walter Wales ; second 
vice-president, Louis Pfingst ; secretary, 
Charles H. Belledeu ; treasurer, John M. E. 
Morrill ; clerk, E. O. Haddock ; directors, T. 

A. Bresnahan, Cyril G. Blaney, Frederick J. 
Brand, George H. Greenwood, and Charles 
L. Bartlett ; racing and speedway committee, 
R. S. Fitch, C. H. Belledeu, A. S. Gushee, F. 
J. Brand, S. H. Mildram, L. E. H. Jones, Geo. 

B. Fowler, H. P. Gallup, F. S. Eldredge, F. L. 
Codman, Alpheus Sanford; membership com- 
mittee, Geo. E. Grifi^n, W. E. Newbert, C. L. 
Hinds ; finance committee, R. S. Fitch, George 
H. Greenwood and H. P. Gallup. 

Weekly matinee races were held on the Blue 
Hill Avenue quarter-mile speedway, that had 
been granted the club by the city and which 
was kept in condition for racing by money se- 
cured from among the members, many of 
whom went down into their pocket for as high 
as $25 each. 

And this brings to mind what happened to a 
number of the members of the club on the very 
first day racing was permitted on Blue Hill 
Avenue, which is well worth reading. 

On account of Captain Charles W. Hunt 
and the police of the Dorchester district not 
being notified of the order signed by Alayor 
Ouincy, allowing the west side of Blue Hill 
Avenue between Talbot Avenue and Morton 
Street to be used for a speedway, several mem- 



ber.s of the Dorchester Driving Club narrowly 
escaped being arrested for fast driving. 

When a mounted policeman saw several of 
the club members start to race their horses he 
stopped them and said that he should be com- 
pelled to place them under arrest. The driv- 
ers told the policeman that a permit had been 
granted, but they could not show it. 

The officer started to take them to the police 
station, but afterward agreed to telephone 
from the nearest signal box. He talked with 
Captain Hunt, but the latter said that he knew 
of no permit. Captain Hunt told the police- 
man to come to the station. He did so, and 
there the matter was discussed. 

I^'inally it was decided that the officer should 
take the names of those on the "Speedway," 
and if it should be found that an order permit- 
ting them to race had not been passed, they 
should be summoned into court instead of be- 
ing actually arrested. 

Among the names of those taken was S. 
Walter \\'ales, the well-known stable man; 
A. S. Gushee, C. L. Young, W. E. Newbert 
and Charles F. Stevens. They found Coun- 
cilman Mildram and explained the difficulty 
they were in. A hurried visit to City Hall and 
police headquarters resulted in matters being 
straightened out, but many of them had sev- 
eral hours of worrying, fearful that they 
would figure in the criminal courts as violators 
of the law. 

Weekly meetings of the club w^ere held in 
Central Hall on Center Street. Monday nights, 
where th.e result of the races of the previous 
week were announced and the horses matched 
for the next Saturday. This matching was 
always done by a special sub-committee of the 
racing and sjjeedway committee, and the sched- 
ules of matches were announced after a recess 
of the business meeting. This schedule of 
matches was never satisfactory to any one, 
and, no matter how fair they were, no one ex- 
pected they would be, so there was always an 
argument for and against putting certain 
horses together. 

A stranger coming into the meeting during 
these arguments would think that the members 
were being matched for a thousand dollar 



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purse instead of a blue ribbon. In these early 
days as many as thirty-five or forty horses 
were matched together, so every owner was 
sure to be on hand and register the customary 
kick as a matter of principle, and many more 
interested members were on hand to hear and 
see the fun. 

These meetings were always largely at- 
tended, and many times the roosters in the back 
yards of Dorchester were giving their signals 
that it was high time men of families were at 
home, when the meetings broke up. 

One of the prominent members of the club 
in these days was a well-known milkman in the 
Dorchester district, whose teams used to start 
out from his home at one o'clock sharp. He 
was heard making the statement that for four 
years his teams had started out every Tuesday 
morning before he arrived home. There were 
several other members of the club who could 
truthfully say the same thing, which shows the 
keen interest the members took in the club 
during the first years of its existence. 

S. Walter Wales never missed a Monday 
night meeting for seven years. W. E. New- 
bert never missed a meeting for eight years. 
H. P. Gallup has missed but one Monday night 
meeting of this club in fourteen years. ( ieorge 
H. Greenwood, the present secretary, has not 
missed over ten in the same length of time. 
D. E. Page has probably missed a dozen meet- 
ings in ten years, and so it goes. We might 
mention many more in the same line. 

There was no doubt but what the Dorches- 
ter Gentlemen's Driving Club was the leading 
social club in the Dorchester district, and if 
"by thy works thou shalt be known," the 
speedway on Franklin Field stands as a mon- 
ument to the power of these members as a po- 
litical organization. The work done on this 
particular matter is fully told elsewhere. 

The club was chartered on June 23, 1890, 
and the charter issued by William Olin. secre- 
tary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 
shows the following names: Chas. L. Young, 
John M. E. Morrill, S. Walter Wales. Chas. 
H. Belledeu, Fred'k J. Brand. George H. 
Greenwood, Timothy A. Bresnahan, HoUis P. 
Gallup, Robert S. Fitch, and Jacob Mosser. 
only two of whom. Greenwood and Gallup, 
are active at the present writing. 

It would be impossible to give a detailed 
list of all the races held on the speedway by 
the members of the club, space being limited 
to the races that were held on the regular field 
days, that were held at Readville track dur- 



ing the first six years, and to the interclub 
races, which were held with the other driving 
clubs of greater Boston. 

The races held by this club at Readville 
were among the most interesting that have 
ever taken place over that historic track. 
Every man, woman and child that passed 
through the gate on the race days were in- 
terested in some horse entered to start. If 
that particular horse could go no faster than 
2:40, he was just as valuable and as im- 
portant to the owner and his friends as if he 
could go in 2:06 1-2. 

When such men as John O'Connor, the 
well-known printer, who weighed 385 pounds ; 
Ross Woodbury, the deep-sea pilot, who 
weighed 296 pounds ; E. L. Hopkins, the well- 
known South Boston real estate man, who 
weighed 290 pounds ; William M. Morrison, 
the master builder, who weighed 283 pounds ; 
and Dave Biggs, the well-known contractor, 
who weighed 278 pounds, would get up be- 
hind their horses and drive in races, it meant 
that they were, or at least they thought they 
were, having some fun. 

Age also had no terrors for some of the 
members. There was a very interesting race 
held at one of its field days when the com- 
bined ages of four of the drivers totaled 268 
years, and they were the youngest old men on 
the field that day. 

To the members of the Dorchester Driving 
Club, also, belongs the honor of staging the 
first handicap race for harness horses ever 
given in this country. This race took place at 
Readville on Labor Day. September 5, 1901, 
and the prizes were a two-minute harness, 
valued at $75 ; a silver ferrule whip, valued at 
$30, and $10 in gold for each second horse. 
The harness was won by the black mare, 
Brightness, by Tarratine, dam Nancy Pilot, 
owned by A. M. Newbert and driven by W. E. 
Newbert, with a handicap of 39 feet back of 
the scratch. Silkey, a chestnut mare by Nel- 
son, owned and driven by Fred Eldredge, 
with a handicap of 810 feet and three inches, 
took second money. The handicap race for 
the whip was won by Azote, a bay gelding by 
Constantine, owned and driven by E. O. Had- 
dock, with a handicap of 678 feet back of the 
scratch. Rex, a bay gelding by Electricity, 
owned and driven by Albert Fellows, was the 
scratch horse in this event, and won second 
money. 

The first ladies' night was held on the even- 
ing of December 11, 1899, in the Dorchester 



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Women's clubhouse. A fine entertainment was 
given, an equall)' fine supper served, and danc- 
ing was enjoyed until well on towards day- 
light. S. Walter Wales was master of cere- 
monies. More than 400 attended, and the suc- 
cess of tlie afifair was unqualified. 



SEASON OF 1900 



The board of officials elected at the annual 
meeting were: President, Charles L. Young; 
first vice-president, S. Walter Wales ; second 
vice-president, Louis Pfingst ; secretary, 
Charles H. Belledeu ; treasurer, John M. E. 
Morrill; clerk, Frederick J. Brand; directors, 
T. A, Bresnahan, Cyril C. Blaney, Frederick 
J. Brand, Geo. H. Greenwood and Charles 
L. Bartlett; racing and speedway com- 
mittee.. R. S. Fitch, chairman, C. H. Belledeu, 
A. .S. Gushee, F. ]. Brand, S. H. Mildram, 
L. E. H. Tones. Geo. B. Fowler, H. P. Gallup, 
F. S. Eldredge, F. L. Codman, Alpheus San- 
ford ; membership committee, Geo. E. Griffin, 
\^^ E. Newbert, C. L. Hinds. 

During President Young's second year in 
office, the first public race for gate money 
was held at Readville, on Bunker Hill Day, 
June 18, and again on Labor Day, September 
3. On June 18 there were four classes for 
purses of $100 each. 

The 2 145 class had six starters, and the 
race was won by Ashmont, owned and driven 
by H. P. Gallup, best heat in 2:37 1-2. The 
2 :25 class had seven starters, and was an- 
nexed by Prince Wilkes, owned and driven 
by C. H. Belledeu, best heat in 2 :22 3-4. The 
free-for-all had five starters, which was won 
by Kentucky Star, also owned by Mr. Belle- 
deu, best heat in 2:17 1-2. The double-team 
race had three starters, and was won by Ran- 
dolph K. and Embrino, driven by J. J\L E. 
Morrill, whose fastest time was 2:28 1-2, 
which was considered very good for horses 
which had never been hitched together before. 

The Labor Day races had five classes for 
purses of $100 each, and a running race for 
a purse of $75. The three-minute trot had 
five starters, and was won by Azote, owned 
and driven by E. O. Haddock, best heat in 
2:341-2. The free-for-all trot had four 
starters, and was won by Camden Girl, owned 
by John Hood, best heat in 2:22 1-2. The 
2 :45 class had six starters, and was won by 
Gladys M., owned and driven by R. K. Clarke, 
best heat in 2 :24 3-4. The 2 :35 class had eight 
starters and was won by Lightfoot, owned 



and driven by T. H. (ialvin, best heat in 2:25. 
The free-for-all pace had four starters and 
was won by Landlord, owned and driven by 
C. L. Young, best time 2:17. 




C. L. YOUNG 

President 1899-1900 

It was on this day that A. S. Gushee, owner 
of the well-known mare, Trinket, in the 25th 
year of her age. started against the record for 
aged horses, which at that time was 2:20 1-2. 
Although Mr. Gushee had never been in a race 
of that nature before, he drove the mare a 
mile in 2.20 3-4, only a quarter of a second 
short of the record. Considering the age of 
the mare, it was a wonderful performance, 
and both horse and driver received much ap- 
plause from the large crowd present. 

The social features of the year were the 
holding of a clam supper on October i, with 
more than 100 present, and a month later was 
held a stag party, at which more than 200 at- 
tended. The stag parties w^ere held frequently 
thereafter in the clubroom. 



SEASON OF 1901 



The board of officials elected for 1901 were: 
President, S. Walter Wales ; first vice-presi- 
dent, Louis Pfingst ; second vice-president, 
Robert S. Fitch; secretary, Charles H. Belle- 
deu ; treasurer, John M. E. Alorrill ; clerk, 
Frederick J. Brand; directors, T. A. Bresna- 
han, Cyril C. Blaney, George H. Greenwood, 
Charles L. Young and H. P. Gallup; racing 



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and speedway committee, C. C. Blaney, Geo. 
W. D'Arcy, J. R. Stuart. Jr.. L. S. Timber- 
lake, Louis Tewhart. Frederick S. Gore, Mol- 
lis P. Gallup, George B. Fowler. R. K. Clarke, 
Charles L. Young, Almond S. Gushee, Wilbur 
C. Littlefield. Jesse Moulton and William C. 
Fitzgerald ; finance committee, Robert S. 




S. WALTER WALES 
President 1901-1902 

Fitcli, Charles L. Young and George H. 
Greenwood ; membership committee, Walter 
E. Newbert, Cliarles L. Hinds and George E. 
Griffin. 

During President Wales' first year in office 
the club only held one race meeting at Read- 
ville, on Labor Day, September 2. There were 
five classes for purses of $100 each. 

The 2 :35 class had six starters, and was 
won by Aggie H., owned and driven by R. ^^'. 
Hickey, who in the second heat made the 
fastest time of the day, 2:181-2. A 
special slow class, always a feature with 
this club, had eight starters, and was captured 
by Brightness, owned and driven by A. M. 
Xewbert. in 2.43 1-4. The 2.20 trot had si.x 
starters, and was won by Lady Madison, 
owned and driven by P. J. Fitzgerald. Alice 
B., owned and driven by W'alter Newbert. 
took the third heat in the fastest time of the 
race, 2:22 1-2, and everybody thought that 
Lady Madison was beaten, but she came back 
strong in the fourth heat and won, finishing 



the race. The 2 .zi class had seven starters, 
and was won by Gladys M., owned and driven 
by R. K. Clarke, in 2 :22 1-2. The free-for-all 
pace had six starters, and was easy for Ken- 
tucky Star, driven by his owner, C. H. Belle- 
deu. best time, 2 iig. 

The second annual ladies' night was held 
on January 30. Thomas N. Hart, the Mayor 
of Boston, honored the occasion with his 
presence. President Wales and Treasurer 
Morrill had charge of the floor. Like its pred- 
ecessor, it was an unqualified success. 



SEASON OF 1902 



The new board of officials were: President, 
S. Walter Wales; first vice-president. Louis 
Pfingst ; second vice-president, John M. E. 
Morrill; secretary, George H. Greenwood; 
treasurer, Robert S. Fitch ; clerk, George 
D'Arcy; directors, T. A. Bresnahan. Jesse 
Moulton. Frederick J. Brand, Charles L. 
■i'oung and Almond S. Cnishee : racing and 
speedway committee. Almond S. Gushee. S. 
W'alter Wales, Fred S. Eldredge, Jesse Moul- 
ton, Hollis P. Gallup, George W. D'Arcy, 
W. \\'. Grant, Louis Pfingst, R. S. Fitch, Wil- 
liam P. Boutelle, Randolph K. Clarke. D. W. 
.Sullivan, Walter E. Xewbert, Fred S. Gore, 
L. S. Timberlake. Charles L. Young, William 
M. Brummett, Edgar O. Haddock, J. W. Lin- 
nehan and William J. Fitzgerald; finance 
committee, T. A. Bresnahan, F. J. Brand and 
Jesse Moulton ; membership committee, 
George E. Griffin, Charles L. Hinds. Dr. 
R. W. Balkam and E. S. Harris. 

During President Wales' second term in 
office the club held two field days at Readville. 
One on Bunker Hill Day, June 17, and the 
other on Labor Day, September i. The races 
on June 17 were the most interesting that 
the club had ever held. There were four 
classes, with purses of $100 each. 

The 2 :20 trot had nine horses, and everv 
horse had a large following, the grandstand 
pulling for their favorite to win. India Panis, 
owned and driven by George French ; Captain 
HalT, owned and driven by J. G. Cleary ; Alice 
B., owned and driven by W. E. Newbert ; 
Lady Madison, owned and driven by P. J. 
Fitzgerald ; Ramus, owned and driven by 
Cary Keith ; Newsboy, owned and driven bv 
J. E. Wilber; Princess Ebilo, owned and 
driven by F. J. Brand; Ninety-One, owned 
and driven by R. C. Richardson, and Gipsy 



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Felix, owned by H. G. Turner and driven by 
E. O. Haddock, were the horses in this class. 
Princess Ebilo won the race, trotting in 
2:20 1-4. but not without a battle in every 
heat. A blanket would have covered Princess 
Ebilo and Gipsy Felix at the wire. 

The 2 -.22 pace had seven starters, and was 
won by Gladys M.. owned and driven by R. K. 
Clarke, in 2:21 3-4. The free-for-all class 
had tive starters, and was quickly taken by 
George G., owned by J. F. Fitzgerald and 
driven by \\'. J. Fitzgerald, in 2:18. A special 
slow class had twelve starters, and was won 
by Cartuna, owned and driven by Frank Hen- 
derson, the fourth trip being a dead heat with 
Dexter, W. L Estabrook driving, in 2 -.^2. 

The Labor Day, September i, races were 
the most bitterly .fought of any ever held by 
the club. Every horse in each of the classes 
had his particular friends in the grandstand, 
coupling with the fact that there were over 
4,000 people present, and that it was an ideal 
day for racing. So important were these 
races considered that a professional starter 
was engaged and judges appointed who had 
no connection with the club. Two of the 
classes were of si.x heats, and had to be car- 
ried over until the following day, one event 
to finish two heats and the other three. There 
were five races, with purses of $100 each. 

The 2 130 class had nine horses, and was 
won by Yellow Boy, after going six heats. 
He was owned and driven by L. E. Billings. 
The fastest heat was in 2:24 1-2. Lacka- 
wanna, driven by his owner, John O'Connor, 
got two heats, and should have nailed the 
race, but he tired in the third heat. He cer- 
tainly had good reason in getting weary, as 
his driver weighed 385 pounds, and they made 
some picture circulating the Readville tracK. 
The 2 :20 trot had six starters, and was won 
after four hard fought heats by India Panis, 
owned and driven by George French. Lady 
Madison, the speedway champion, won the 
first heat in the fastest time of the race, 
2:22 1-2, but the Lady was getting too old 
to stall off the younger horses. 

The free-for-all had six starters, and was 
very easy for the little horse. Rondo, owned 
by S. ^\'alter ^^■ales, and driven by that mas- 
ter reinsman, Fred Eldredge. Two heats, in 
2:16 1-2 and 2:16, was all he had to do, and 
he could have easily gone three seconds faster 
if necessary. The 2:2^ class had five starters, 
and went six heats, four of which heats were 
trotted the first day. McNaiy's Hal, owned 



by R. Y. W oodbury and driven by \\ . E. 
Newbert, won the first heat in 2:23 3-4. Bud- 
weiser, owned and driven by J. W. Linnehan, 
annexed the second heat in 2 -.26 3-4. Captain 
Hall, owned and driven by A. S. Gushee, se- 
cured the third heat in 2 126 1-4. Grover C. 
owned by P. J. Fitzgerald and driven by E. O. 
Haddock, got the fourth heat in 2 .2/. 

These four horses went to the stable after 
the first day's racing with a heat apiece to 
their credit. They were so evenly matched 
that several hundred dollars was wagered tha 
night among the friends of the diflr'erent 
horses. Pools were sold in regular Grand 
Circuit style, and when the race was called 
the ne.xt day over Soo people were in the 
grandstand. Budweiser. w'hose caretaker nart 
put in some extra work on him after the race 
the day before, came out fresh and full of 
fight, and won the two heats necessary . 
land the money, in 2:26 1-2 and 2:27 1-2, but 
not until after a battle with Newbert and 
Haddock, who would have given a good part 
of Franklin Field to have won. 

The special slow class was another race 
carried over from the first day and decided 
on September 2. Two heats, one in 2:^2 1-2. 
the fastest of the race, had been won the first 
day by Bonnie Patchen, owned and driven bv 
T. R. Galvin, and one heat by Emma R., 
owned and driven by C. R. Hinds. The sec- 
ond day, Pholyphema, owned and driven bv 
Dr. R. W Balkam, came out the freshest, 
and won in three straight heats. 

The third annual ladies' night took place on 
February 11. President Wales and Mrs. 
Wales led the grand march at the dance which 
followed the entertainment and supper. 
George ^^". D'Arcy was chairman of the com- 
mittee of arrangements, and J. M. E. Morrill 
was floor director. 

SEASON OF 1903 

The annual board of officials were as fol- 
lows : President, Frederick J. Brand ; first vice- 
president, Randolph K. Clarke ; second vice- 
president, J. M. E. Morrill ; secretary, George 
H. Greenwood ; treasurer, Robert S. Fitch , 
directors. S. Walter Wales, T. A. Bresnahan. 
Charles L. Young, Almond S. Gushee and 
Hollis P. Gallup ; racing and speedway com 
mittee, Almond S. Gushee, S. Walter Wales. 
George H. Greenwood, Hollis P. Gallup. 
Hiram A. Haven, George W. D'Arcy, \\'. W 
Grant, Louis Pfingst, Jacob Mosser, R. S. 



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F'itch. William P. Boutelle, Randolph K. 
Clarke. D. W. Sullivan, Walter E. Newbert, 
Fred S. Gore, Wilbur S. Littlefield, Fred S. 
Eldredge, Charles L. Young, William I\I. 
Brummett. Edgar O. Haddock, J. W'. Linne- 
han, William J. Fitzgerald and Charles L. 




FRED J. BRAND 
President 1903-1904 

Hinds; finance committee, T. A. Bresnahan, 
S. A\'alter Wales, Albert Fellows, Almond S. 
Gushee ; membership committee, George E. 
Griffin, Dr. R. W. Balkam, E. S. Harris, Nel- 
son Pierce and C. M. jNIandell; clerk, George 
^^^ D'Arcy. 

The feature of the ladies' night, held on 
February 12, was the presentation to the re- 
retiring president, S. Walter Wales, of a cost- 
ly gold stop-watch. President Brand intro- 
duced Second Mce-President Morrill, who 
made the presentation speech. On the watch 
was inscribed : 

"Presented to S. Waher Wales by the 
members of the Dorchester Gentlemen's 
Driving club as a small token of their esteem 
and appreciation of his efforts in behalf of 
the drivina; club, while he was president. 
"Boston, February 12, 1903." 

The first banquet of the club took place at 
Hendrie's, on the evening of November 5, 
and was dedicated especially to the men. The 
members turned out in goodly numbers, and 
invited guests were present, private, political 
and otherwise. The members and guests were 



gathered around small tables, thus choosing 
their own companions. First \'ice-president 
Randolph K. Clarke was head of the commit- 
tee of arrangements. A fine entertainment 
was given and there were excellent speeches. 

One of the features of the evening was the 
presentation to A. S, Gushee, who had just 
completed his three years' service as chairman 
of the racing committee, of an easy chair. 

The usual matinees were held at Readville 
on June 17 and on Labor Day, which fell on 
September 7. On the first named date, there 
were five events, each for a purse of $100. 

The free-for-all attracted a lot of attention, 
the starters being Parker S., Rex and Lana- 
lord. \Mien it came to racing it was discov- 
ered that the first named gelding had the 
speed of the party, his fastest heat being m 
2:17 1-4. 

The largest field w'as in the 2 :2^ pace, and 
was conducive of the best sport of the after- 
noon. Budweiser, owned and driven by J- W. 
Linnehan, grabbed ofl:' the last three heats, 
after finishing fourth in the opening one, 
which was taken by McNary's Hal. 

The races on Labor Day were four in num- 
ber. In the special slow class, the first heat 
was won by Sunny Jim, owned by W^ M. 
Brummett and driven by W. E. Newbert. 
Then Lucinda, owned and driven by A. D. 
Gould, showed by tlie unusual manner in 
which she won the next two heats that she 
had no license to be entered in the slow class. 

The 2 :34 pace was copped by Don W'ilkes, 
owned and driven by F. H. Robinson. The 
2 :26 pace and 2 :22 trot was a fighting race 
from start to finish. The first heat was won 
by Brightness, owned by A. ]\I, Newbert and 
driven by E. O. Haddock. The second heat 
was captured by Captain Hall, owned and 
driven by A. S. Gushee. The third heat was 
taken by India Panis, owned by George 
French and driven by J. W. Linnehan. Then 
the fourth and fifth heats and race were won 
by Captain Hall. The 2:19 pace and 2:15 trot 
were annexed by W. W. Saylor, owned by 
H. R. Barry and driven by Fred Eldredge, in 
straight heats, the fastest in 2:18 1-4. 



SEASON OF 1904 



President Brand was returned for a second 
term in office, as utider his first administra- 
tion the club had increased its membership, 
while its cash balance was about 30 per cent 
more than before he took the chair. The first 



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election of officials was held on January 4, 
but owing to a question of legality, a second 
election was held on January 18, the latter, of 
course, being the one that counted. 

It was this election that marked a new 
method of the selection of officials. The old 
way was to have the president appoint a 
nomination committee to bring in a list of the 
officers for the ensuing year. Then if there 
was no opposition, the election was by accla- 
mation. As there was seldom any opposition 
under this system, everything worked very 
smoothly, but still was not satisfactory to 
many members of the club. 

In the election of January 18, what was 
known as the Brand system, but which in all 
reality was the same as our state elections in 
using the Australian ballot, the plan being for 
open nominations of the members from the 
floor for the different offices and each man 
nominated, of course, was placed on the ticket 
for the members to choose and vote for in 
secret. Following were the officials for the 
ensuing year : 

IVesident, Frederick J. Brand ; first vice-pres- 
ident, Kandolph K. Clarke ; second vice-presi- 
dent, Almond S. Gdshee ; secretary, George 
H. Greenwood ; treasurer, Robert S. Fitch ; 
directors, H. P. Gallup, G. ^\■. D'Arcy, J. W. 
Linnehan, P. J. Fitzgerald, Jacob Mosser ; 
finance committee, Albert Fellows, Diedrich 
Filers, J. A. Smith ; racing and speedway com- 
mittee, W. E. Newbert, E. (J. Haddock, H. R. 
Barry, W'm. Brummett, F. S. Eldredge, F. H. 
Robinson, D. M. Biggs, E. S. Harris, J. R. 
Stuart, Jr., E. W. Berrigan, D. W. Sullivan ; 
membership committee. Nelson Pierce, R. C. 
Richardson, G. E. Griffin ; clerk, Ernest H. 
Morgan. 

Socially, there were held several big stag 
parties and whist parties. The annual ladies" 
night and concert was on the evening of 
April 17, and the appointments, entertainment, 
music and attendance were of the highest 
class. 

The second annual banquet was held on 
October 2y at the women's clubhouse, R. K. 
Clarke being the toastmaster. Members and 
guests were present in even greater numbers 
than on the year previous, many of the city 
officials being among those seated at the 
tables. It marked the closing days of the con- 
struction of the Franklin Field Speedway, the 
work having begun on August i. This really 
was the stellar event under President Brand's 
administration of two vears in office, and at 



the dinner the speaking on all sides was of 
the jollification sort. Congratulations by the 
politicians present were heartily extended to 
the president and other officers of the club in 
the accomplishment of their heart's desire. 
The speedway was completed on November 
21. 

It was counted that the dedication of the 
Franklin Field course, which was held on 
Thanksgiving Day, would be celebrated in no 
uncertain manner, but the day was inclement 
and it was impossible to hold the races, but 
a goodly number of the members took part in 
the preliminary parade, while many others 
gathered along the line of the new speedway 
and stood in the drizzling rain in the hope 
that the racing might take place. The length 
of the new speedway was a quarter of a mile. 

As was customary, two racing meets were 
held at Readville during 1904, the first on 
June 17, and the other on Labor Day, which 
fell on September 5. 

The June 17 races drew out a large attend- 
ance, and the most interesting event of the 
afternoon proved to be the 2:13 trot, which 
was won by Authentic, owned and driven by 
D. M. Biggs, his time of the third heat, 
2:16 1-4, being the best made during the day 
by a trotter. Dr. Shorb, driven by J. W. Lin- 
nehan, grabbed off the second heat, which 
gave his entry a place in the summary next to 
the winner. 

The free-for-all had a good held of starters, 
and was captured by Ned Wilkes. The first 
two heats of this race were scorchers, the 
opening one being in 2:13 1-4 by The Private, 
while the next Ned Wilkes placed to his credit 
in the fast time of 2:13. 

There were four classes decided on Labor 
Day. The 2 125 trot or pace was won by Billy 
Barlow, owned by W. P. Boutelle and driven 
by E. O. Haddock. The special slow class 
was won by Mutineer, owned and driven bv 
C. C. Blaney. 

In the fast class, the 2:18 trot or pace, 
after Miss Pratt had reeled off the initial heat 
in 2:17 3-4, John W. Linnehan gathered in 
the race with Budweiser, his second and third 
heats being each in 2:18 1-4. C. C. Blanev 
won the 2 135 class with Charlena. 

The club took part in the horse show at 
Mechanics Building in the Spring and carried 
off second prize. President Brand, with 
Minetta, led the Dorchester contingent of the 
parade, followed by J. R. Stuart, Jr., with 
Susie F,, D. M. Biggs with .\uthentic, M. A 



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Nevens with Richmond, and H. A. Haven 
with Baroness. The cash prize of $50 was 
turned into the club's coffers. 



SEASON OF 1905 



Tlie important change in the election for 
this year was Almond S. Gushee securing the 




A. S. GUSHEE 
President 1905 

most votes for president. The contest was a 
strenuous one, the opposition to Mr. Gushee 
coming from R. K. Clarke, who had filled the 
position of first vice-president and always had 
been a hard and sincere worker of the inter- 
ests of the club. The friends of Mr. Clarke 
contended that he was more entitled to the 
oiTice of president than was Mr. Gushee, as 
the latter was second vice-president and it 
was, in their opinion, the proper way for the 
oflicers to graduate into higher positions ana 
not jump over anybody's head. There were 
1 14 votes cast for the candidates, of which 
Mr. Gushee got 58, and Mr. Clarke 56. How- 
ever bitter the feelings were during the smoke 
of battle, yet, when the decision had been ren- 
dered, it was accepted with utmost good hu- 
mor by everyone, all being again reunited to 
work for the best interests of the organiza- 
tion. The complete board of officers for the 
year were : 

President, Almond S. Gushee ; first vice- 
president, George W. D'Arcy ; second vice- 
president, Jacob Mosser ; secretary, George H. 
Greenwood ; treasurer, Robert S. Fitch ; direc- 



tors, I'eter J. Fitzgerald, Fred S. Eldredge. 
Hollis P. Gallup, J. Rollin Stuart, Jr., and 
Walter E. Newbert; clerk, Ernest H. Mor- 
gan ; racing and speedway committee, H. R. 
Barry, D. E. Page, F. H. Robinson, J. F. 
Carey, W. A. Marsh, E. O. Haddock, J. N. 
Terry, R. C. Richardson, E. S. Harris, Patrick 
Sullivan, C. C. Blaney ; membership commit- 
tee. Nelson Pierce, E. P. Denn, M. E. Har- 
rington ; finance committee, Albert Fellows, 
T. A. Smith, Diedrich Filers, C. M. Mandell. 
C. H. Morse. 

( )n January 19 was held the annual ladies' 
night, the affair being in charge of R. K. 
Clarke, and, due to his hard work, it was 
thought the best ever held since the inception 
of the club. In the Fall was held the annual 
banquet, the Quincy House being the scene 
of gaiety, and it was well on toward the small 
hours of morning before a large number of 
the members reached home and retired for 
rest upon their downy couches. 

It was during this year that the club held 
its last race meet over the Readville track, the 
same being decided on June 17, with four 
events. The free-for-all was for a purse of 
$200, the others remaining at $100 each. It 
was with much regret that the club gave up 
these regular field days, as, while the manage- 
ment had raised the price for the use of Read- 
ville track from $100 to $250, starting the new 
rate the year before, the race meets had come 
out on the right side of the ledger. 

In the events of June 17, General Fiske 
proved the best of the party in the free-for- 
all, winning the second heat in 2:141-2, the 
fastest time of the afternoon. Ornament and 
Budweiser had a hot battle in the 2:18 class, 
but the former had just enough left to wiij 
each trip. Goldie took the 2 :24 event in 
straight heats, and Roy \V'ilkes was success^ 
ful in the 2 :35 class, though losing the second 
heat to Ethel Wagner. 



SEASON OF 1906 



The contest for president this year was be- 
tween George W. D'Arcy and John W. Linne- 
han, and each worked hard to get out the 
full vote and earn the honor of occupying the 
executive chair. The result of the polls was 
Mr. D'Arcy 73 votes and Mr. Linnehan 58 
votes. The complete slate for the ensuing 
year follows : 

President, Geo. W. D'Arcy; first vice-presi- 
dent, ^^'. E. Newbert ; second vice-president, 



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P. J. Fitzgerald; secretary, Geo. 11. Green- 
wood ; treasurer, R. S. Fitch ; directors, E. O. 
Haddock, E. S. Harris, F. S. Eldredge, A. Fel- 
lows, H. R. Barry ; racing and speedway com- 
mittee, J. W. Limiehan, chairman, Hiram 
Haven, J. A. Swendeman, W. A. Marsh, W. 
M. Brummett, F. H. Bellows, \L A. Nevens, 
Geo. A. French, R. C. Richardson, A. T. 
Wheelock, F. H. Robinson, J. F. Carey, J. ^^■. 
.McEnanv, S. Wolfson ; house committee, 
C. L. Young, chairman. S. W. Wales, Jr., 
Percv Blaney. Dr. R. W. Balkam, J. X. 
Terrv ; membership committee. Nelson 
Fierce, chairman, E. P. Denn, H. P. Gallup, 
E. B. Swett : finance committee, D. Filers, 
chairman, T- A. Swett, C. H. Morse, C. M. 
Mandell, C. C. Blaney: clerk, E. G. Richard- 
son. 

The most successful ladies' night in the his- 
tory of the club up to that time was held in 
President D'Arcv's administration. It was 
held at the Women's Clubhouse, and so many 
were jiresent, that commodious as the quar- 
ters are, the rooms were almost filled to over- 
flowing. After the dinner, which was to all 
purposes a banquet, was an elaborate enter- 
tainment followed by dancing. 

Through the remainder of the Winter 
months, there were several gander parties held 
at the club rooms, and, in December, was held' 
the annual banquet at the Quincy House. 

President D'Arcy's term in office has always 
been looked back to by members of the club 
as the leading year in social prominence of the 
organization. 

The Franklin Field Speedway remained just 
as popular as ever, each of the Saturdays, 
wlien weather permitted, the racing was very 
interesting with a very large attendance at 
these weekly meeting's. 



D. Filers ; secretary, (i. H. tlreenwood, treas- 
urer, R. S. Fitch ; directors, H. P. Gallup, E. 
B. Swett, C. H. Morse. S. W. Wales. Jr., 
A. T. Wheelock ; racing and speedway com- 
mittee, ). E. Swendeman, chairman, A. M. 



SEASON OF 1907 



^^'alter E. X'ewbert was the choice of the 
clul) when the votes were counted for presi- 
dent, and, in securing this member to fill the 
honored position, the club rewarded the hard- 
est worker it had for the welfare of the organ- 
ization. Both day and night President New- 
bert worked in securing new members, the 
club increasing its membership more during 
his administration than it did during any other 
period in its career. The complete list of offi- 
cers for the ensuing year was as follows : 

President, W. E. Newbert ; first vice-presi- 
dent, E. O. Haddock ; second vice-president. 




GEORGE W. D'ARCY 
President 1005 

Newbert, W. P. Boutelle, F. S. Eldredge. P. 
C. Blaney, E. S. Harris.. F. H. Bellows, A. H. 
F'itch, J. \\'. Linnehan, A. S. Gushee, R. C. 
Richardson, ^\^ J. Fitzgerald, R. G. Crosby. 
J. S. Rockwell, F. W. Hamlin ; finance com- 
mittee, C. C. Blanev, chairman, A. Fellows, 
W. M. Brummett, 6. A. French, J. ^^". AIc- 
Enany : membership committee, E. P. Denn, 
chairman, E. H. Morse, A. H. Keeler, C. E. 
Devereau.x, W. J. Estabrook ; house commit- 
tee, C. L. Young, chairman, H. C. Thayer. J. 
W. Mahoney, C. G. Richler, Chas. Patterson, 
W. A. Marsh, E. W. Berrigan ; clerk, E. G. 
Richardson. 

There was the annual ladies' night in the lat- 
ter months of the \\'inter as well as several 
gander parties held in the clubrooms, and, on 
December 5 was held the annual banquet at 
the Quincy House. 

Past President Gushee was toastmaster at 
the banquet at which 250 members and their 
guests attended. The visitors from the Lynn 
Driving Club devoted considerable of their 
attention in their after-dinner addresses 
to the defeats their club had adminis- 
tered to the Dorchesters in the interclub meets 
of the past season. 



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President Newbert, in speaking of the suc- 
cess of the club, stated that the present stand- 
ing had only been attained by the hardest and 
most faithful work on the part of the mem- 
bers. While the clul) has one of the best 




WALTER E. NEWBERT 
President 19U7-1908 

quarter-mile tracks in the country, yet he was 
working hard, in the interests of the people 
who enjoyed the sport, to have built, the com- 
ing year, a grandstand at the speedway. 

E.x-president Fred J. Brand stated that it 
was his opinion that the club would at no dis- 
tant day own a clubhouse of its own near the 
speedway and that plans to that effect were 
being made. 

One of the particular features of the even- 
ing was the presentation to Hollis P. Gallup, 
by the club, of a watch-chain and charm. Mr. 
Gallup had done more to increase the club's 
membership than any other member. In re- 
sponse Mr. Gallup said that he had never 
iound it hard to sell goods when full ^-alue 
could be given in return. 

On the speedway that year matters were 
kept going at top speed in the number of races 



started and horses entered. The club, too, 
took part in a series of interclub meets with 
Lvnn, and, while the latter came off the vic- 
tors, yet there was the best of good feeling on 
the part of lioth contestants. 



SEASON OF 1908 



Matters with the club had flourished su un- 
der the first year of President Newbert that he 
was re-elected by a very large majority, the 
following being the complete list of officials: 

President, \\'. E. Xewbert ; first vice-presi- 
dent, E. (J. Haddock; .second vice-president, 
D. Eilers: secretary, G. H. Greenwood; treas- 
urer, R. S. FitclY; directors, H. P. Gallup, F. 
O. Guild, J. W. Linnehan, F. H. Bellows, A. 
M. Johnson; racing and speedway committee, 
F. W. Hamlin, chairman, E. H. Alorse, A. M. 
Newbert, F. S. Eldredge, E. S. Harris, A. T. 
Wheelock, A. H. Keeler, A. S. Gushee, J. E. 
Swendeman, \V. P. Boutelle, P. C. Blanc\-, I''. 
B. Swett, J. N. Terry, R. C. Richardson, \\'. J. 
Fitzgerald ; membership committee, C. E. Dev- 
ereaux, chairman, C. W. Patterson, L. E. 
Mirram, L. Nelson, E. P. Denn, A. M. Cain, 
W. J. Bates, A. Briggs; finance committee, A. 
Fellows, chairman, G. A. French, J. W. AIc- 
Enany, C. T. Greenwood, H. C. Thayer. L. 
Tewhart, P. O'Hearn, A. J. Furbush, Geo. 
Johnson, Geo. Leonard ; house committee, C. 
L. Young, chairman. J. X. Terrv, T. A. W'ins- 
loe, M. F. Maher, "H. E. 6'Neil, ^^■. C. 
Hawkes, E. ^^^ Berrigan, H. Graham, L. Mar- 
tin, A. F. Spencer ; clerk, E. G. Richardson. 

There were the usual ladies' night and many 
gander parties in the clubroom, and on Decem- 
lier 9 was held the annual banquet at tne 
Quincy House. Among the speakers were 
Mayor Hibbard, President Brooks of the Fells- 
way Club, Frank J. Babbitt, president of the 
Lynn Club; C. J. Brown, president of the At- 
tleboro Club; Levi Lord, president of the 
Hamilton Club; J. W. Brown, president of 
the Brockton Club ; T. Lee Quimby, of the 
Gentlemen's Driving Club of Boston, and 
A. H. Jewett, of the Ouannapowitt Club. 

In the after-dinner addresses, the speakers 
were enthusiastic that the driving clubs of 
New England form an organization for the 
purpose of promoting the sport. The handicap 
system of racing was also given a good word 
by President Babbitt of the Lynn Club, who 
thought the plan should be adopted by all the 
driving clubs. 



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On the speedway, the year was made more 
prominent than some of the preceding ones. 
The grandstand promised by the city had 
been completed and was much appreciated by 
the members and their lady friends, while the 
important racing event was between the Lynn 
and Dorchester horses, and a grand field day 
was held between these two clubs. 



Xewbert, chairman of the entertainment com- 
mittee, as toastmaster. The first speaker was 
President Brand of the Board of Aldermen, 
then acting as Mayor of Boston in Mayor 
Hibbard's absence. He went into the early 



SEASON OF 1909 



As the result of the election this year, John 
W. Linnehan was elected president by a big 
margin, and, during his career in the executive 
chair, the club continued in very prosperous 
condition. The list of ofticers for the year 
was : 

President, J. \\". Linnehan ; first vice-presi- 
dent, A. M. Johnson; second vice-president, 
W. P. Boutelle; secretary, Geo. H. Green- 
wood; treasurer, R. S. Fitch; directors, H. P. 
Gallup, R. G. Crosby, F. W. Hamlin, A. AI. 
Newbert, W. J\L Brummett; racing and speed- 
way committee, F. W. Hamlin, chairman, A. 
H. Keeler, E. H. Alorse. A. S. Gushee, F. H. 
Bellows, L. A. Bean, L. Tewhart, A. Fellows, 
A. T. Wheelock, W. J. Fitzgerald, W. E. 
Newbert, E. O. Haddock, P. C. Blaney, J. H. 
Coakley, R. C. Richardson, T. A. Winsloe, 
A. J. Furbush ; finance committee, C. T. 
Greenwood, chairman, H. Buchner, T. E. 
Henderson, D. E. Page, E. L. Goodnow, A. 
Ripley, F. S. Eldredge, T. F. Cannon, John 
Spiers, A. J. Legg and C. C. Blaney ; mem- 
bership committee, E. S. Harris, chairman, 
E. A. Fuller, D. Filers, J. X. Terry, E, J. 
Xorris, W. H. Bennett," T- \\'. AIcEnany, 
M. F. Maher. T. J. Grift^n," Geo. E. Griffin, 
J. H. Casey, H. P. Gallup and C. S. Coffin; 
house committee, C. L. Young, chairman, 
W. P. Boutelle, A. AL Cain, Chas. Patterson, 
J. A Graham, A. M. Brown, W. J. Bates, 
J. Murphy, S. Bradford, L. Nelson and B. F. 
Tuttle ; clerk, E. G. Richardson. 

The social affairs of the club were equal to 
any, particularly the ladies' night and the an- 
nual banquet held on December 8 at the 
Quincy House. Two hundred and fifty en- 
thusiastic light harness horse owners and road 
drivers participated in the seventh annual 
dinner. Among those present were representa- 
tives from almost all of the driving clubs 
around Boston, as well as from the Speedway 
Club of Worcester. 

President Linnehan introduced Walter E 




J W. LINNEHAN 
President 1909 

history of the club, with which he was so fa- 
miliar, having filled the position of president. 
Ex-Mayor Fitzgerald was enthusiastically 
greeted as he entered the banquet hall, and 
in his brief address spoke of equality and hu- 
manity as two essentials both in civic and 
private life. "The city of Boston," said Mr. 
Fitzgerald, "instead of being conducted as a 
stricdy business institution should be man- 
aged in the lines of a very philanthropic in- 
stitution." 

Senator E. A. Cowee, president of the 
Speedway Club of Worcester, brought the 
greetings of the Worcester horsemen to then- 
Dorchester and Boston brethren. Frank E. 
Morrison, secretary of the Fellsway Driving 
Club, President Babbitt of the Gentlemen's 
Driving Club of Lynn, Fred C. Garmon, 
chairman of the board of trustees of the Alet- 



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ropolitan Driving Club, and E. Mark Sullivan, 
assistant United States District Attorney, 
were among the speakers. 

Besides the regular Saturday and holiday 
matinees at Franklin Field Speedway, there 
were held, during the Summer months, a 



SEASON OF 1910 




Mayor Fitzgerald Leading Parade at Dedication 
of the Half-mile Speedway on Franklin Field 



grand interclub series of meets between Dor- 
chester, Fellsway, Lynn and Quannapowitt, 
each of these clubs meeting in the races, that 
were decided at Combination Park, Medford, 
Rockdale Park, Peabody, the Reading- 
Wakefield track, and the last session back- 
again at Combination. As the result of this 
grand contest, the large silver cup was won 
by the Dorchester Driving Club, and placed 
with all honor in the private office of the club. 

President Linnehan, in summing up tin; 
grand success of the Dorchester Club in win- 
ning this trophy, gave great credit to Frank 
Hamlin, the chairman of the racing commii- 
tee, who worked early and late getting tlic 
members to enter and start their horses in tlic 
several races, and in this way was Dorchestci- 
so well and strongly represented that it car- 
ried away the cup. 

Previous to the big interclub meets, tlie 
Fellsway and Dorchester Clubs had a sort of 
introductory clash on June 17 at Combination 
Park, which resulted in the defeat of the 
Fellsway Club by the very close score of jy 
points for Dorchester, to 76 1-2 points for the 
Fellsway. This was the closest interclub meet 
ever held in the history of driving clubs in 
New England. Of the 18 events on the card 
that dav, the Dorchester Club won 10. 



A. M. Johnson, who had been strongly 
identified with the club since its inception 
both in filling offices and by racing on the 
speedway, was elected president, the full 
ticket for the ensuing year being as follows : 

President, A. M. Johnson ; first vice-presi- 
W. P. Boutelle; second vice-president, F. W. 
Hamlin; secretary, Geo. H. Greenwood; 
treasurer. A. Fellows ; directors, A. T. Wheel- 
ock. J. W. Coakley, F. W. Guild, M. McDer- 
mott, John Spiers ; racing and speedway com- 
mittee, A. H. Keeler, chairman, L. Tewhart, 
R. G. Crosby, A. Fellows, E. L. Hopkins, 
F. H. Bellows, A. C. Maher, L. A. Bean, D. E. 
Page. E. H. Alorse, J. W. Coakley, F. S. El- 
dredge, and T. J. Griffin ; membership com- 
mittee. H. P. Gallup, chairman, J. Dunn, E. S. 
Harris. A. M. Cain, E. P. Denn, H. Buchner, 
F. ^[. Bleiler, E. J. Norris, AI. McDermott, 
A. Kaan and W. J. Bates ; house committee. S. 
Bradford, chairman, J. A. Graham. A. H. 
Paul, B. F. Tutde, F." F. Cannon and W. P. 
Boutelle ; finance committee. C. T. Green- 
wood, cliairman. T. E. Henderson ; clerk, 
John H. Buckley. 

The eighth annual banquet of the club was 
held at the Quincy House, on December 6, 
with 200 members and invited guests present. 




Mayor Fitzgerald Winning with Ralph Wick 
on Dorchester Day in 1912. Time 1:06 

The leading speaker of the evening was Coun- 
cillor F. J. Brand, who characteristically 
termed the evening the club's annual free-for- 
all. The speaking was interspersed with mu- 
sic, and a number of capital stories with re- 
marks upon matinee racing and what it was 



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purposed to accomplish during tlie coming 
season. 

Among those who spoke were F. C. Gar- 
mon. president of the Metropolitan Driving 
Club, Daniel Paine of the Fellsway Driving 
Club, Harry C. Thayer, president of the Old 
Colony Driving Club, and Councillor T. J. 
Buckley, whose interest in behalf of the 
Franklin Field Speedway had given him a 
place upon the club's honorary membership 
list. 

During the year there were strenuous efforts 
made in securing an appropriation from the 
City of Boston in extending the Franklin 
Field Speedway from a quarter of a mile in 
length to that of one-half a mile. By hard 
work from President Johnson and his com- 
mittee this was finally accomplished, and 
work upon the course was begun the middle 
of July, and at odd times continued until the 
frost put a stop to operations that Fall. 

Of the principal events on the speedway 
was the race in July between Charley King, 
owned by A. T. W'heelock, and Cascade, the 
property of T. J. Griffin. These two crack 
pacers not only fought it out to the bitter end, 
but each lowered the previous track record to 
29 seconds. The complete summary of this 
race is appended. 

Franklin Field Speedway. July i. 1910. — Class A, 
pacing. 
Charley King, blk. g. (A. T. Wheelock) i i 2 1 

Cascade, br. g. (T. J. Griffin) 2 2 i j 

Time — 31 1-45., 30s., 20s.. 29s. 



SEASON OF 1911 



President Johnson was re-elected for an- 
other year, and the following shows the 
complete list of officers : President, A. M. 
Johnson ; first vice-president, F. W. Hamlin ; 
second vice-president, R. G. Crosby; secre- 
tary, Geo. H. Greenwood ; treasurer, A. Fel- 
lows ; clerk, John H. Buckley; directors, H. 
Buchner, \\'. J. Fitzgerald, P.'O'Hearn, A. T. 
\\'heelock and W. H. Young; racing and 
speedway committee, F. W. Hamlin, chair- 
man, L. A. Bean, E. H. Morse, T- W. Coak- 
ley, T. T. Grifl^n, M. AIcDermott". C. Carroll, 
F. W. Clark, T. R. Fraser, A. G. Tileston, 
J. P. McDonald, R. Ward, J. MacDonnell, 
M. D., R G. Crosby, A. H. Keeler. F. S. El- 
dredge, F. H. Bellows, D. M. Spinnev, A. S. 
Gushee, W. J. Fitzgerald, H. P. Gallup, H. B. 
Flanders, S. W. Wales and G. O. Goudey ; 
membership committee, A. Fellows, chairman', 
J. A. Sherlock, C. M. Durland. J. \\'. Burns, 



Dr. W". H. Sawyer, E. P. Denn and J. F. 
Carey ; finance committee, H. P. Gallup, 
chairman, G. E. Griffin ; house committee, 
W. P. Boutelle, chairman, S. Bradforu, J. A. 
Graham, B. F. Tuttle and T. F. Cannon. 

The ninth annual banquet was held at the 
Quincv House, in December, and, like the 
previous ones, brought out a full house, all of 
the leading members of the other driving 




A. M. JOHNSON 
President 1910-11-12 



clubs being present. Mayor Fitzgerald and 
several members of the City Council were 
also present. 

The principal event of this season was the 
interclub meet between the Dorchester and 
Springfield Clubs. Dorchester going to Spring- 
field. 

The year was an important one, inasmuch 
as that on Dorchester Day, June 9, was dedi- 
cated the new half-mile speedway at Franklin 
Field. Mayor Fitzgerald was the guest of 
honor, and showed his versatility by driving 
the fast trotter, Ralph Wick, 2:13 1-4, owned 
by President Johnson, the half-mile in i :o6. 



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which was considered fast for the new track, second faster tlian the record for pacers over 
The Mayor looked for all the world like a the speedway held by Easter Direct, owned by 
Grand Circuit pilot, and amply proved that he T. J. Griffin, and made on June 17. The sum- 
was no novice in driving the trotter. After mary: 
tile feat. Councillor Collins made a brief Franklin Field Speedway, July 7, 1911.— Class A, 



speech of introduction and presented the „ , \'^^h,- , , 
^ Ralph Wick, b. 



Camello, blk. 




g. (A. M. Johnson) i i 

(M. McDermott) 2 2 

Time — i :oi, i :03 1-4. 



Mayor Fitzgerald Receiving Prize Cup from 

Councillor Collins for Winning Race 

with Ralph Wick 

Mayor with a solid silver cup for winning 
the race. Then jMayor Fitzgerald dedicated 
the track by a short speech and singing 
"Sweet Adeline." Over 15,000 persons were 
at the speedway at the dedicatory opening. 
Following is the summary of the race won by 
the Mayor, and the first event decided over 
the new speedway : 

Franklin Field Speedway, June 9, igii. — Special 
race (solid silver cup) 

Ralph Wick, br. g. (Mayor J. F. Fitzgerald).... i 

Camello, blk. g. (M. McDermott) 2 

Bonnie Patchen, bl. g. (H. Buchner) 3 

Baron Patch, b. g. (W. J. Fitzgerald) 4 

Time — i :o6. 

On June 30 the track record was lowered 
to I :o2 1-4 by Camello, owned and driven by 
M. McDermott, defeating Ralph Wick, Presi- 
dent Johnson's trotter, the last heat being in 
1:02 1-4. The summary: 

Franklin Field Speedway. June 30, 191 1.— Class E, 
trot. 

Camello, liik. g. (M. McDermott) i i 

Ralph Wick, b. g. (A. M. Johnson) 2 2 

Time — i :o3, i :o2 1-4. 

One week later the trotting record of the 
course received another dent, this time it be- 
ing Ralph Wick, President Johnson's speedy 
trotter, defeating Camello, and reducing the 
record to 1:01. It was a peculiar fact, but 
the mark set by Ralph W'kk was one-half a 



An unusual feature of the matinees of that 
season happened on August 18, when Miss 
Edith M. Gushee, a Boston school teacher, 
drove Manila Boy in a special heat against 
Cracker Boy, the latter driven by her father, 
A. S. Gushee. Miss Gushee held the reins 
ke an old-timer, and passing under the wire 
■-he plied the whip to defeat Cracker Boy, 
which she did by a length in i :o5 1-2. Miss 
< lushee was a thorough horsewoman and had 
licen desirous of driving for some time, but 
I he officials of the club had refused, up to 
that time, to permit a woman to drive in races. 



SEASON OF 1912 



President Johnson was re-elected to office 
for the third term. It was a complete distinc- 
tion for him to occupy that position three 
years, as he was the only man since the incep- 
tion of the club in 1899, that had been so 
honored. Following is the complete list of 
officers for the year : 

President, A. M. Johnson ; first vice-presi- 
dent, F. \\'. Hamlin ; second vice-president, 
P. O'Hearn; secretary, Geo. H. Greenwood; 
treasurer, A. Fellows; clerk, John H. Buck- 
ley; directors, D. M. Spinney, C. JNI. Warren, 
W. H. Young, T. J. Griffin, E. O. Haddock; 
racing and speedway committee, A. S. Gushee, 
chairman. J. A. Anderson, A. W. Staples, M. 
McDermott, P. O'Hearn, D. M. Spinnev, 
I. F. Griffin, C. Carroll, H. M. Slinkier, ^^■. E. 
Wells, J. W. Coakley, A. H. Keeler. C. M. 
Warren, R. G. Crosby, W. J. Fitzgerald. (3. E. 
Linscott, G. O. Goudey, H. Graham, E. F. 
Powers, W. H. Sawyer, J. O. Reay. C. C. 
Blaney, H. P. Gallup, W. H. Young; finance 
committee, A. S. Gushee, chairman, C. M. 
Warren ; membership committee, E. O. Had- 
dock, H. P. Gallup, A. V. Staples, D. M. 
Biggs, A. G. Tileston, H. Buchner, R. Mager, 
A. Briggs, F. H. Bellows and E. P. Denn ; 
house committee, T- T. Willard, chairman, 
J. W. Burns, J. P. McDonald, C. Starrett, S. 
Bradford, J. A. Graham, Wm. Douse, J. Mc- 
Grnv. 




RALPH WICK, 2:13 1-4 

Winner of More Races Over Half-mile Tracks than Any Other Trotter in the World, and the 

First Trotter to Win a Heat in 1:01 at the Franklin Field Speedway 

Owned by A. M. Johnson 



The Driving Clubs of Greater Boston 



The club was thrown into deep grief by the 
death of Frederick J. Brand, who passed 
away on Alarch 12. His was the initial break 
in the line of the club's executives, and it was, 
indeed, a great shock to the members in re- 
alizing that one in the prime of manhood 
could be so quickly cut off. 

Mr. Brand was one of the charter members 
of the Dorchester Gentlemen's Driving Club, 
being on the first board of directors. The 
years of I goo and 1901 he served the club in 
the position of clerk, and in 1903-4 he was 
president, these being the years of the con- 
struction of Franklin Field Speedway. 

Politically, Mr. Brand was a power in the 
city of Boston. He was president of the 
Board of Aldermen in 1909, and acting flayer 
in the absence of ^layor Hibbard. 

The social events of the year were the stag 
parties at the clubhouse and the tenth annual 
banquet at the Quincy House. 

The season was an eventful one on the 
speedway, the first of importance being the 
equaling of the trotting record of I :oi, held 
by Ralph Wick, by the noted gelding. Nut 
Boy, owned and driven by P. O'Hearn. This 
occurred on May 18, when the gelding was 
matched against Earl King, defeating him in 
straight heats, the times of which were 1:01 
and I :oi 1-2. The time was the best for two 
consecutive heats ever made by a trotter. The 
summary : 

Franklin Field Speedway, May 18, 1912. — Class A, 
trot. 

Nut Boy, b. g. (P. O'Hearn) i 1 

Earl King, b. g. (H. P. Gallup) 2 2 

Time — i :oi, l.oi 1-2. 

In the matinee held on September 7, the 
record for the speedway by pacers was re- 
duced to I :oo flat by Manila Boy, owned and 
driven by A. S. Gushee, he winning the first 
heat in a race against Charley King. Though 
gaining honor in establishing the new record, 
yet Manila Boy was defeated in the race by 
his opponent, who gathered in the next two 
heats. The summary: 

Franklin Field Speedway, Sept. 7, IQ12. — Class A, 
pace. 
Charley King. blk. g. (A. T. Wheelock) ..211 

Manila Boy, b. g. (A. S. Gushee) i 2 2 

Time — i :oo, 1 :04 1-4, i :05 1-4. 



SEASON OF 1913 



Riley G. Crosby, who had been very promi- 
nent in the afl:'airs of the club, particularly in 



the racing end, he having owned more horses 
and contested in more matinees than any other 
member of the club, was one of the candidates 
for the office of president. Mr. Crosby had 
filled the position of second vice-president in 
President Johnson's second term of office, and 
for an extended period had been on the board 
of directors and a strong factor in the racing 
committee. 

Opposing him was Frank Hamlin, who had 
been first vice-president under A. M. John- 
son's administration. Mr. Hamlin, since the 
early days of the club, had been an earnest 
and faithful worker, having served on the 
racing and other committees. In the campaign 
the admirers of Mr. Hamlin brought out the 
fact of his having been the real factor in the 
club winning the large and elegant silver 
trophy, in 1909, at the big interclub series of 
meets. Also, how he had raced horses and 
had, to a large extent, induced others in buy- 
ing speed and competing in the matinees. 

When it came to the vote, Mr. Crosby re- 
ceived the majority cast, and was duly elected 
to the position for the ensuing year, with the 
following list of officials : 

President, R. G. Crosby ; first vice-presi- 
dent, P. O'Hearn ; second vice-president, 
W. H. Young; secretary, Geo. H. Green- 
wood ; treasurer, A. Fellows ; clerk, John A. 
Anderson ; directors, F. H. Bellows, M. Mc- 
Dermott, F. S. Eldredge, A. T. Wheelock and 
D. M. Biggs ; membership committee, E. P. 
Denn, chairman, T. H. Clements, D. F. Doyle, 

A. Ripley, Chas. Starrett and J. A. Tilley; 
house committee. J. T. Willard, chairman, J. 
McGray, J. A. Graham, Chas. Starrett and 
J. W. Burns ; finance committee, C. M. W'ar- 
ren. chairman, and Geo. E. Griffin ; racing and 
speedway committee, W. J. Fitzgerald, chair- 
man, A. H. Keeler, A. Briggs, T. ^^'. Burns, 
I. H. Burns, J. W. Biggs, F. W. Calash, J. 

B. Chadbourne, C. M. Durland, H. P. Gal- 
lup, H. Graham, G. O. Goudev, H. J. Har- 
ris, F. ^^^ Hamlin, E. O. Haddock, O. E. 
Linscott, J. F. Robie, W. H. Sawyer, 
W. H. Young, A. C. Tileston, R. Ward. C. R. 
Young, O. C. Charles, M. McDermott, T. IMc- 
Gray, R. De\'oe. A.' S. Gushee, F. H. Bel- 
lows, W. E. Newbert, J. A. Anderson, E. H. 
Morse and P. B. Shaw. 

The social features of the year were the 
several stag parties held in the clubhouse and 
the annual banquet at the Quincy House. 
President Crosby introduced ex-President 
Johnson as toastmaster for the evening. 



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23 



Amuiig the guests were President G. I'ray 
Smith of the Metropolitan Club, President 
G. A. Law of the Fellsway Club, and Presi- 
dent H. A. Brackett of the Quannapowitt 
Club. In the after-dinner speaking the matter 
generally discussed was that the members of 
all the driving clubs should become better ac- 
quainted and there should be more occasions 
offered where all of the clubs would meet and 
in this way the social part of the organization 
be extended. Many of the speakers believed 
that the future depended a great deal on the 
sociability of the different clubs. 

There was much rejoicing on the part of 
the members in the racing at Franklin Park 
Speedway, especially the ladies, on the city 
putting a roof on the grandstand. This was 
appreciated, particularly on the hot days of 
the Summer months. 

There was interclub racing during the sea- 
son. A big program had been arranged for 
Dorchester Day, twenty-two horses coming 
over from the Fellsway Club to participate in 
the interclub events, but it proved such a bad, 
rainy day that there was no opportunity for 
racing and the program had to be declared off. 
On May 30, in the interclub meet with Fells- 
way, the latter won the most points, and in 
the return meet between these clubs, held on 
Labor Day, Dorchester was victorious, this 
making the honors even between the two 
clubs. 



SEASON OF 1914 



At the annual meeting and election of the 
club in January, President Crosby was re- 
elected to serve his second term in office, the 
following being the complete ticket selected 
for the ensuing year : 

President. R. G. Crosby ; first vice-presi- 
dent, P. O'Hearn ; second vice-president, 
D. M. Biggs; secretary, G. H. Green- 
wood ; treasurer, A. Fellows ; clerk, John A. 
Anderson; 'directors, J. VV. Biggs, J. H. 
Burns, A. Briggs, J. Dunn. S. R. Carey ; rac- 
ing and speedway committee. \V. j. Fitzger- 
ald, chairman, J. F. Robie, E. O. Haddock, 
A. H. Keeler, J. W. Biggs, A. T. Wheelock, 
O. C. Charles, A. S. Gushee, J. W. Burns, 
T. J. Clements, F. S. Eldredge, H. Graham, 

C. R. Young, M. McDermott, W. H. Minton, 
S. R. Carey, A. Briggs, J. Dunn, T. J. Griffin, 

D. M. Spinney, A. M. Johnson, J. H. Burns, 
P. O'Hearn, R. Ward, H. P. Gallup, \Vm. 



Douse, M. Green, and D. M. Biggs; member- 
ship committee, W. H. Young, chairman, F. 
G. Potter, Lee Raymond, C. M. Durland ; 
house committee, J. T. Willard, chairman, J. 
A. Graham, Chas. Starratt, J. W. Burns, VV. 
J. Edson, and Roy Ballard ; finance commit- 
tee, G. E. Griffin, chairman, E. F. Powers. 




R. G. CROSBY 

President 191.3-1914 

An unfortunate occurrence happened in the 
early Summer, when the grandstand was de- 
stroyed by fire. The club immediately began 
work on the city government in securing a 
new one, and the promises were readily made 
that by the opening of the racing season of 
191 5 a new concrete grandstand would have 
been erected. 

For some time the members had complained 
that the speedway was not in as good condi- 
tion for fast time as it should be. This was 
caused by the top soil breaking out in places, 
making the footing uncertain. After the 
speedway had settled from the Winter frost, 
the city put its employees at work and scraped 
oft' all of the old material from the surface 
and put on a new top soil, which resulted in 



24 The Driving Clubs of Greater Boston 

its being the fastest piece of racing dirt out- the Mayor, who, after waving his jockey cap 

of-doors. to the spectators, hustled away to meet his 

The first great event on the speedway came other engagements of the afternoon. The 

on Dorchester Day, June 6. Mayor Curley put summary : 

in his appearance at three o'clock, donned in Franklin Field Speedway, June 7, 1914. — Special 

a khaki suit and jockey cap that had been race, 

loaned to him by Building Commissioner R-G.^ Crosby's Jack Bingen, blk. g. (Mayor 

O'Hearn. As the Mayor took his seat in the ,-, "^Ir i\- '• '/^'i d i. /'aV 

„ , , ■ ■ T , TT -n -1 r- i_ . C. M. \\ arren 5 Color Bearer, b. g. (Mr. 

sulky behind Jack Bmgen, President Crosby s O'Hearn) 2 3 

black trotting gelding, there were assembled Cal MacDonald's Lester W., b.g. (Mr. Crosby) *3 

in the grandstand and massed three and four William H. Young's Sister Patch, b. m. (Mr. 

deep along the fence that separated the track ^ oung) 2 

from the field fully 9,000 people, while on the ^^, , . Time— 1.06 1-2, 1:041-2. 

„ , , . ,, ,,- ^ , ' ' 'Changed horses m the second heat, 
field itself were thousands more, men, women 

and children. As the Mayor jogged up the On June 27 Sister Patch, owned and driven 

stretch to take the word in what was hoped by W. H. Young, defeated Charley King in 

would terminate in his reducing the record straight heats and tied the pacing record of 

held by ex-Mayor Fitzgerald, of i :o6, the im- the track, held by Manila Boy, at i :oo. She 

mense crowd kept up a constant ovation of ^on the second heat in i :oi 1-4, thus giving 

cheering. l^gj- ^j-jg fastest two consecutive heats ever 

Opposed to Mayor Curley and his Jack paced over the speedway. The summary : 

Bingen was Color Bearer, owned by C. M. Franklin Field Speedwav, June 27, ig^.-Class A, 

Warren and driven by P. O'Hearn, and Les- pace. 

ter W., owned bv Cal MacDonald and driven Sister Patch, b. m. (W. H. Young) i i 

by President Crosby. Charley King, blk. g. (\. T. Wheelock).. 2 2 

i,r, ,, J • ^ i.1 • £ 1 1 Time — 1:00. 1:011-4. 

When the word was given to this field. 

Presiding Judge Horace Harris announced Interclub meets were held with the Fells- 
through the megaphone that the Mayor was way and Old Colony Clubs. On May 30 the 
coming. "The IVIayor leads at the quarter," Dorchester boys went to Combination, and 
was the next shout, and immediately there was were successful in defeating the Fellsways. 
a great crush to get a glimpse of His Honor Dorchester tackled the Old Colony at South 
driving his first horse race. He drove like a Weymouth on July 4, and only lost the verdict 
veteran, keeping the lead all the time, and by the narrow margin of two points. Charley 
won by a neck from Color Bearer in i :o6 1-2. King was as reliable as ever, however, bring- 

"That's good," said the ]Mayor at the finish, ing home a victory for the Dorchesters in his 

"I must try another heat." He was joked some event, and turned the track in i -.07 3-4 and 

from the crowd, but told them that it beat i :o7 1-4. In the fast trotting event President 

any political race he was ever in. There was Crosby's Jack Bingen headed the summary, 

more applause and the horses were off up the defeating Kaldar and Catherine C, two of the 

stretch for the second heat. Old Colony star trotters. 

In place of Lester W., who had been with- The second interclub meet was held at 

drawn, was Sister Patch, the ]:)acing mare. South \\'eymouth on Labor Day, September 

owned and driven by William H. Young. To 7. and while the Dorchester horses were again 

a good start the Mayor kept Jack Bingen defeated, yet they captured both of the fast 

busily at his work the whole half-mile, and classes. In the feature trotting event, Presi- 

he was obliged to in order to defeat Sister dent Crosby's Jack Bingen defeated Kather- 

Patch, as the latter was right at his throat ine R. and Higgins in i :o8 3-4 and i :og, 

latch and ready to take the lead if the trotting while Sister Patch, owned and driven by 

gelding made the slightest wobble. True as a William H. Young, took the measure of Edith 

die, the Alayor had Jack Bingen on his stride R., one of the best of the Old Colony pacing 

and passed the wire in record-breaking time, division, by winning the second and third 

the announcer calling out 1 :04 1-2. heats in i :'o7 and i :o8 1-2, Edith R. having 

This started the immense throng to wild captured the first heat in i :o6. 
cheering and the band began playing a patri- The history of the Dorchester Gentlemen's 
otic selection. City Councillor Walter Collins Driving Club is replete with trotters and pa- 
stepped forward and pinned a blue ribbon on cers which have earned for themselves promi- 



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25 



tient places in the history of the professional 
turf of this country. Among those that can 
readily be brought to mind, having a national 
reputation, can be mentioned the trotting 
mare Trinket, 2:14, the champion four-year- 
old trotter in 1879, when she earned a record 
of 2:19 3-4. She was the property of A. S. 
Gushee. 

Jewett. the champion three-year-old trotter 
in 1879, with a record of 2:23 1-2, and later 
converted to a pacer, getting a record of 2:14, 
was for years the champion snow horse of 
New England. During that time he was own- 
ed by J. M. E. Morrill. 

Ethel's Pride. 2 :o6 3-4, winner of the clas- 
sic Transylvania stake at Lexington, Ky., and 
an $8,000 stake at Syracuse, N. Y., in 1905, 
was then the property of John Shepard. 

Nut Boy, 2:07 i'4' "^^'ho went all the way 
down through the Grand Circuit, in 1906, 
without losing a race, and who has won a 
heat at Franklin Field Speedway in i:oi, 
which equals the best time ever made by a 
trotter over that piece of racing dirt, was 
owned by Patrick O'Hearn. 

Ralph Wick, 2:13 1-4, the trotting gelding 
that has the distinction of having won more 
races over half-mile tracks than any other 
trotter raced in this country or Canada, and 
first placed the record of the speedway of i :oi, 
was owned by A. M. Johnson. 

Phoebon W'.. 2 :o8 3-4, which was owned 
by W. J. Furbush, and entertained the mem- 
bers and spectators at Franklin Field on 
many occasions, and on one in particular, 
when he and Bunker Hill raced five heats on 
the quarter of a mile speedway, the average 
time being in 30 seconds, the record for the 
course for a five-heat race, and which event 
was never fully decided as to which pacer 
was the better, the club giving to both a silver 
cup as the winner. 

Altro L., 2 :09 3-4, that has been a veteran 
in winning blue ribbons over at Franklin 
Field Speedway, when not engaged in mati- 
nees at South Weymouth, was owned by 
Harry C. Thaver. 



Kentucky Star. 2:08 1-2, a persistent race 
horse and one of the fastest matinee pacers in 
New England, was owned by C. H. Belledeu. 
Then can be named Parker S., 2 :o6 1-2, the 
property of W. J. Furbush; The Private, 
2:07 1-2, owned by Harry Russell; Cascade, 
2:06 1-2, Thomas Grit^n's speedy pacer; Caf- 
feeno, 2:07 1-4. owned by Fred H. Bellows; 
Ned Wilkes, 2:09 1-4, one of the gamest race 
horses that ever looked through a bridle, 
owned by I.ouis Pfingst; Mascot. Jr., 2:10 1-4, 
owned by John Hood ; Judge Green, 2 109, a 
good trotter over the Grand Circuit, owned 
by H. P. Gallup; Early Bird, Jr., 2:11 1-2. 
owned by A. E. Kenney; Senator L., 2:12, 
owned by John Shepard; Sanford L., 
2:12 1-2, owned by T. A. Bresnahan, and 
George G., 2:12, owned by W. J. Fitzgerald. 

Bunker Hill, 2:13 3-4; B. S. Dillon, 
2:14 1-4; Annie Lee, 2:071-4; Grace G., 
2:05 1-4; Postman, 2:14 1-4, can all be re- 
membered as the property of R. G. Crosby. 
Rex, 2:13 1-2, the pacing gelding that held 
the records of the !Marshfield and South 
Weymouth tracks for several years, and a 
consistent winner at the matinees, owned by 
John Neal; Rondo, 2:143-4, one of the 
sweetest matinee horses in the club, owned by 
S. Walter Wales; Wilkes Brino, 2:141-2, 
has won many blue ribbons for his owner, 
A. J. Legg; Landlord, 2:16 3-4, that had the 
honor of defeating more horses for the cham- 
pionship ribbon on the Dorchester speedway 
in his day than any other horse, was owned by 
C. L. Young. 

While among the others are Max G., 
2 :i2 1-4, owned by A. G. Turner; Rubsley G., 
2: 16 1-2, owned by Jesse Moulton ; Bob Fitz, 
2:17 1-2, owned by H. P. Gallup; Bonnets" 
O'Blue, 2:18 3-4, owned by George D'Arcy; 
Budweiser, 2:181-4, and Reno K., 2:15 1-2, 
owned by J. W. Linnehan; Susie F., 2:20 1-4, 
owned by J. Rollin Stuart, Jr. ; the great mat- 
inee trotter. Lady Madison, 2:20 1-4 who held 
the championship longer than any other trot- 
ter in the Dorchester Club, owned by P. J. 
Fitzgerald, and the fast but unfortunate mare, 
Charlena, 2:22 1-4. owned bv C. C. Blaney. 



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NUT BOY, 2:07 1-4 

The Biggest Money Winning Trotter in the Grand Circuit of 1907, and Joint Holder of 

the Speedway Record of 1:01 at Franklin Field. Owned by P. O'Hearn 




GEORGE M., 2:14 1-4 
One of the Stars of Franklin Field Speedway. Owned by O. C. Charles 




MOLLIS P. GALLUP AND HLS TROTTERS 

Top:— Earl King, Winner of More Races Against Pacers Than Any Trotter in Greater Boston 

Bottom: Hollis Bingen, Bred, Raised and Developed into a Fast Trotter by Mr. Gallup 




A Sweel Gaited Trotting Mare That Has Been Prominent in Dorchester and Old Colony 
Club Races. Owned bv M. McDermott 




BUUWEISER, 2:18 1-4 

One of the Crack Pacers in the Early Days of Matinee Racing That Was Never Defeated 

Until the Race Was Over. Owned by J. W. Linnehan 



JACK BINGEN, 2:22 1-4 

The Trotter Mayor Curley Won with in 1:04 1-2 and Has Been a 

Very Consistent Matinee Winner. 

Owned by R. G. Crosby 




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SISTER PATCH 

Joint Holder of Franklin Field Speedway Pacing Record of 1:00 

and Fastest Two Heats of 1:00, 1:01 1-4. 

Owned by W. H. Young 




BARON PATCH, 2:18 3-4 

A Money Winning Trotter on the Half-mile Tracks and a Favorite with All in 

Matinee Racing. Owned by Fred S. Eldredge 




DLMPLE. by Lothair, Jr. 

In All-Round Qualities the Peer of Any Pacing Mare in Greater Boston and with 

Speed to Tackle tlie Best. Owned by J. W. McEnany 



The Metropolitan 
Driving Club of Boston 

1904 1914 





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The Metropolitan Driving Club 



ONE afternoon, during the Septem- 
ber meeting of 1904 at the Read- 
ville track, William D. Hmit, 
meeting two Boston newspaper- 
men, John H. Jewett and Ed- 
ward E. Cogswell, suggested the plan of form- 
ing a driving club to hold matinees over the 
Charles River Speedway, which course had 
been built at an enormous expense by the State 
of Massachusetts, and, despite the fact that on 
the year ])revious several members of the 
Gentlemen's Driving Club of Boston, headed 
h\ Thomas C. I'lant. had erected a clubhouse 
and stables there, had been neglected by the 
great mass of road drivers of Boston as a rac- 
ing ground for their horses. 

It was there decided to approach Lemuel G. 
Trott, another Boston newspaper man. and by 
the means of articles in the daily press, to find 
how generously the local lovers of the light 
harness horse would support such a club. Mr. 
Trott was enthusiastic when informed of what 
was in the air, and took hold of the project 
with Jewett and Cogswell to have it a big suc- 
cess. 

A call for a meeting of the road drivers of 
Greater Boston to meet at Young's Hotel. 
Room B, on Saturday, October i, 1904, at 10 
A. M. attracted a goodly gathering. The call 
for the meeting was read by George A. Ciraves 
and he was elected temporary chairman, with 
Randolph K. Clarke as temporary secretary. 
In the general debate that followed, in which 
all present joined, it was the consensus of 
opinion that a driving club was the crying 
need in making the Charles River Speedway 
popular with the horsemen. It was voted to 
name the organization the "Metropolitan 
Driving Club of Boston," and to have the 
membership fee $5 per year. A committee to 
solicit members for the new club was appoint- 
ed, as follows: G. A. Graves, J. V. N. Stults, 
William H. Allen, John W. Linnehan, Frank 
O. Gould, Harry |. Russell, J. Henrv Nay, 
R. K. Clarke, C. C. Blaney, M. A. Nevens, 
John H. Jewett, Lemuel G. Trott and Edward 
E. Cogswell. Thirteen on the committee, but 
as events proved not an unlucky number. 

The permanent organization of the club was 
perfected on October jo. J. \'. N. Stuhs was 
elected president; Henry M. Whitney, (jeorge 
A. Graves. \\'. J. Furlnish. Isaac Sexton, 
M. C. Harrison and E. C. Barry, vice-presi- 
dents ; Monroe Goodspeed, treasurer, and 
Randolph K. Clarke, secretary. 



On account of the resignations of J. \ . N. 
Stults, Monroe Goodspeed and Randolph K. 
Clarke, a meeting of the club was called for 
( )ctober 25, at Young's Hotel. The organiza- 
tion had so quickly jumped into popularity, in 
the short time the membership mounting to 
250, of which, by a personal canvass, the 




C. H. BELLEUEU 
Piesident 1904-1909 (inclusive) 

newsjiaper trio. Messrs. Jewett. Trott and 
Cogswell, had secured nearly 200, Mr. Stults 
had come to the conclusion that the duties of 
president of such a hustling organization would 
prove too arduous for him to fulfill; this, too, 
was the case with Mr. Goodspeed, while Mr. 
Clarke's action was caused through being a 
candidate for president of the Dorchester 
Gentlemen's Driving Club, and he thought it 
better not to hold official positions in two 
separate driving clubs. Charles H. Belledeu 
was elected president in place of Mr. Stults, 
while M. C. Harrison was elected to the posi- 
tions of treasurer and secretary, it being con- 
sidered a good plan to combine the two offices. 
A board of ten directors was elected, as fol- 
lows : C. H. Belledeu, W. J. Furbush, George 
A. Graves, John Shepard, M. C. Harrison, 
John W. Linnehan, Isaac Sexton, J. V. N. 
Stults, Henry M. Whitney and Monroe Good- 
speed. The directors then appointed J. H. 
Jewett presiding judge; L. G. Trott official 



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programmer and E. E. Cogswell starting 
judge of the matinee racing, Messrs. Jeweti 
and Cogswell being named as the matching 
committee. It was voted to hold ribbon mati- 
nees on Wednesdays and Saturdays, begin- 
ning with October 29, and ending Thanksgiv- 
ing Day. November 24, with nine silver cups 
to be offered for the holiday events. 

In the meantime, informal matinees had 
been held on the speedway on October 15 and 
22, the racing comprising of impromptu brush- 
ing between the owners of the horses, without 
any time being taken. So many of the mem- 
bers came out on these occasions that at the 
meeting of the club at Young's Hotel on Oc- 
tober 25, a message was read from Thomas G. 
Plant and his associates, who were owners of 
the clubhouse and stables at the speedway, 
that, to further encourage the new club, the 
use of the clubhouse would be given the' mem- 
bers of the Metropolitan Club on race days, 
beginning with the matinee of November 2. 

Thus it was that the initial blue ribbon mati- 
nee of the Metropolitan Driving Club was 
held on October 29, 1904. Superintendent 
John S. Oilman not only had the speedway in 
excellent condition, but through his efforts a 
telephone connection had been made from the 
starter's post to the judge's, at the half-mile 
pole, to be used in timing the heats. Some 
very close racing was the feature that day. 
The winners of the races were Miss Monroe 
(Goodspeed) in 1:12; Scotia ( VV. J. Fur- 
bush) in 1:14: Susie K. (Belledeu) in i:ii; 
Special Boy ( W. J. Furbush) in 1:061-4; 
Axtello (Harrison) in 1:05; and John Shep- 
ard drove his pole team. Altro L. and Prom- 
ise, in I :o8 1-2. At the conclusion of the 
races, Mr. Shepard announced to the press 
representatives and the members present that 
he was open to meet any pole team in New 
England with his pair of trotters, for fun and 
glory. 

So great was the rivalry among the mem- 
bers to possess one of the nine silver cups on 
Thanksgiving Day that more than fifty horses 
were entered, and forty-five took the word, 
there being from four to seven starters in 
each class. Rain falling after three events had 
been decided, the remainder of the card was 
raced the following Saturday, with the fol- 
lowing cup winners : 

T. J. Donnolly's My Chance (Crowley) in 1:071-4. 
T. J. Donnolly's Madeline Electrite "(Crowley) in 

I :og 1-2. 
W. J. Furbush's Montana Maid (Furbush) in 1.07. 
W. J. Furbush's Scotia (Furbush) in 1:081-2 
Thomas T. Murray's Pat L. (Crowley) in i :o5. 
M. C. Harrison's Axtello (Harrison) in 1:033-4, 
C. G. Peck's Nigira (Peck) in i :i3. 



T. D. Blake's Pensive Maid (Parker) in i :o6. 

W. T. Furbush's Phoebon W. (Furbush) in 1:041-2. 

The fast trot, won by Axtello, was a thrill- 
ing four-heat race, John Shepard's Altro L., 
C. H. Belledeu up, winning the opening heat 
in I :o4. Then Walter Farmer captured the 
second heat with Fashion in I 105. In these 
heats A. W. Turner's Max G., M. A. Nevens 
up, was barely beaten at the wire. Axtello 
then won the next two heats, and by taking 
the third in 1 103 3-4 placed a, new speedway 
record for trotters. A new speedway record 
for pacers was, also, set by Phoebon W., cov- 
ering the half-mile in i :o4 1-2. 

The directors immediately announced an- 
other series of matinees, to close Christmas 
Day, with four silver cups for prizes. These 
were a champion cup for the trotter winning 
the fastest race, and a point cup for the trot- 
ter winning the most points in the series. Two 
cups were offered the pacers under the same 
conditions as the trotters. 

In spite of the cold weather, and racing 
over frozen ground, wonderful interest was 
manifested by the members of the club ; in 
fact, on December 7, with a couple of inches 
of snow. Superintendent Oilman ran his 
scraper.s over the course, permitting seven 
well-filled classes to be decided, on very good 
footing. 

It was on this date, also, that the members 
of the club received a severe jolt upon arriv- 
ing at the speedway, that came near disor- 
ganizing the club. They found that the club- 
house and stables had been closed to them, as 
per order from the owners of the property, 
and though it was a particularly blustering 
afternoon the members and spectators were 
obliged to witness the sport from the side- 
walks, while the horses had no shelter between 
heats, excepting what blankets the grooms 
happened to have in covering them. A move- 
ment was started by the directors of the Met- 
ropolitan Club to erect a clubhouse and stables 
of their own, and securing the land adjoining 
the other clubhouse upon which to build their 
new home. Events which developed immedi- 
ately made this action unnecessary, thanks to 
Walter B. Farmer. 

The first sleighing of 1904 was held on De- 
cember i_i, and the next Saturday was the 
initial snow matinee of the club, with eleven 
classes and twenty-seven starters. \\^ith the 
beginning of the sleighing season, the Select- 
men of Brookline issued a notice forbidding 
racing to sleigh over the Beacon Street boule- 
vard, which for years had been the sleighing 
grotmd for the horsemen of Boston. This so 
stirred up a lot of road drivers, who in the 
order thought they saw a movement to com- 



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35 



pel them to race over the Charles River Speed- 
way, that a committee of them went to Henry 
M. Whitney, a citizen of Brookline, and asked 
him to intercede for them with the selectmen 
in having the ban removed. Mr. Whitney suc- 
ceeded in doing so, but it proved later that 
Beacon Street boulevard, as a popular resort 
in racing to sleigh, was doomed. 




Old-Tinie Winter Scene on Beacon Street 
Boulevard 

This was brought about by the action of the 
Boston newspaper men, Alessrs. Jewett, Cogs- 
well and the Trotts, Frank G. and L. G., who 
made a round robin that no attention be paid, 
by writing press stories, of those using the 
boulevard to sleigh, but that long accounts be 
given to the racing and brushing going on at 
Charles River Speedway. It was surprising 
how quick was the result ; in a few days the 
Beacon Street boulevard was deserted by 
owners of fast trotters and pacers, and the 
Charles River Speedway was crowded. 

Walter B. Farmer, as previously stated, 
proved the power that was the real making 
of the club, when on December 21 (matinee 
day), he personally presented to every man 
woman and child that lined the sidewalks, his 
signed invitation to use the clubhouse as his 
special guest on that afternoon, and on every 
matinee afternoon in the future, until further 
notice. As may be imagined, the independent 
action of Mr. Farmer caused the owners of 
the property great concern; in fact, to an ex- 
tent that after a few days they sold the club- 
house and stables to the Gentlemen's Driving 
Club of Boston, the majority of whom were 
members of the Metropolitan Club, the direc- 
tors of which, at a special meeting, leased the 
property to the Metropolitan Driving Club for 
one year. 

With the assurity of a home for one year, 
at least, it was a happy crowd of members 
'hat assembled at the clubhouse on Christmas 
Day to witness the final matinee of the series. 



and the presentation of the cups won. Walter 
B. Farme'- won the champion cup for trotters 
with Fashion, his fastest race being in 
I :o6 1-4, 1 :o6 1-2 and i :o6 1-2. E. C. Smith 
won the point cup for trotters with Lady 
Hilton. The champion pacing cup was won by 
Harry J. Russell with The Private, M. A. 
Nevens doing the driving, in i :o6 1-4, i :o6 1-4 
and I :o6 1-2, while the pacing point cup was 
awarded to L. E. Seeton, the owner of Fred 
H. 

One bright feature in the matinees of the 
Fall of 1904 was C. W. Marks, of Chicago, a 
Boston born boy, who shipped from Chicago 
for racing on our speedway his three horses, 
Tom Keene, 2:04 1-4, Carlio M, 2:09 1-4, and 
Fanfaron. 2:11 1-2, and he certainly had great 
sport witli his fleet trio. 

A sad occurrence that season was the trot- 
ting mare, Aladeline Electrite, owned by T. J. 
Donnolly, dropping dead in the third heat of 
her race on November 30, after having won 
the initial heat of the event in i 109 1-2. This 
was the only accident of the season. 

In the matinee held on December 24, ^l. C. 
Harrison won a heat to sleigh with Axtello 
in 1:12, which still remains (1914) the 
Charles River Speedway record for a half- 
mile to sleigh. 



SEASON OF 1905 



The first matter of importance coming be- 
fore the officials of the Metropolitan Driving 
Club of Boston, in 1905, was accepting the 
invitation of the Concord (N. H.) Driving 
Club for an intercity matinee on February 15, 
the event to be held over the Concord (N. H.) 
Speedway. It was a big day in that city, the 
Governor of New Hampshire holding his bi- 
ennial reception and ball in the evening, while 
the racing, in the afternoon, attracted an im- 
mense crowd. 

The one great feature was John Shepard 
driving his pole team. Promise and Altro 
L., an exhibition heat in 37 seconds. As 
the clean-stepping pair of trotters, hitched 
to a natty Perrin sleigh, with their 71-year-old 
owner holding the reins, swept over the course 
with the Governor seated beside him, there 
was a coiitinuous ovation from the start to the 
finish. 

As to the racing, sad to relate, not a 
winner was returned for the ^Metropolitan 
Club, Concord horses earning all the glory for 
;heir owners. The events were quarter-mile 
heats, and in Class A trot "Lo" Currier's 
Plural defeated A. W. Turner's Alax G. Best 
time, 32s Class B trot went to H. G. Kil- 
kennv's Charlev Benton, beating C. H. Belle- 



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The Driving Clubs of Greater Boston 



deu's Susie K. and H. J. Russell's Picture 
Hat. Best time, 36s. Class C pace was won 
by John Marston's William L., defeating 
C. H. Belledeu's Dart. Best time, 32 i-2s. 
Class D pace went to H. A. Stonely's Tom 
Arnold, beating H. J. Russell's The Private, 
and J. W. Linnehan's Rex. Best time, 32 i-2s. 
A banquet was held after the races, at the 
Eagle Hotel, in honor of the visiting horse- 
men from Boston, when Mr. Shepard was in- 
troduced by the Governor as the best known 
gentleman driver in New England. The crowd 
cheered long and loud. 

There was much sleighing on the Charles 
River Speedway during this Winter, the fast 
trotting events being very exciting between 
T. G. Plant's Alice Carr, 2:09 i"4; John 
Shepard's Altro L., 2 rog 3-4 ; and Walter Far- 
mer's Fashion, 2:15. The struggle for honors 
of champion trotter of the speedway finally 
narrowed down to between Alice Carr and 
Fashion, the latter having the better of the 
argument in the earlier clashes, but Alice Carr 
showing her superiority by a slight margin in 
the closing matinees, and thus gaining the dis- 
tinction of snow champion for the season. 

A special meeting of the board of directors 
was held on April 22. William D. Hunt was 
elected a member of the board in place of 
John W. Linnehan, who had resigned. Mi. 
Hunt was also made chairman of the racing 
committee, and it was voted to give four sil- 
ver cups for the Spring series of matinees, to 
begin May 6 and close June 24. On account 
of a postponement, the last matinee was July 
I, the cup winners for this series being as fol- 
lows : 

Trotters 
Speed cup— Isaac Sexton's Tom Phair. 
Point cup— George P. Johnson's Alice Sliedd. 

Pacers 
Speed cup — William McPhee's Whiffet. 
Point cup— William Steele's Lady Rose. 

A noteworthy feature of the series was Tom 
Phair winning all of his starts, seven in all. 
and lowering the speedway trotting record, 
held by Axtello, from i :o3 3-4 to i :o3 1-4. 

The second annual meeting of the club was 
held at Young's Hotel on October 3. The 
election resuhed as follows: C. H. Belledeu, 
president; G. A. Graves, H. M. Whitney] 
W. J. Furbush. Isaac Sexton, Charles H. 
Traiser and W. D. Hunt, vice-presidents; 
M. C. Harrison, secretary and treasurer. 
Board of directors, C. H. Belledeu. W. J. 
Furbush, G. A. Graves, John Shepard, M. C. 
Harrison, W. D. Hunt. Isaac Sexton, J. V. N. 
Stults, Charles H. Traiser and M. Goodspeed. 
Mr. Hunt was reappointed chairman of the 



racing cominittee. It was voted to offer four 
silver cups for the Fall series of matinees, to 
begin October 1 1 and close on November 30 ; 
also to change the day of matinees from Sat- 
urday to Wednesday, as luany of the mem- 
bers were unable to leave their business duties 
on Saturday afternoons. 

The winners of the silver cups in the Fall 
series were : 

Trotters 
Speed cup — W. D. Hunt's Curta. 
Point cup — Isaac Se.xton's Tom Phair. 

Pacers 
Speed cup — W. H. Emerson's Louise E. 
Point cup — A. E. Kinney's Early Bird, Jr. 

In this series both the trotting and pacing 
records of the speedway were lowered, as in 
the matinee of November i, Curta. driven bv 




CURTA, 2:13 1-4 

Winner of Speed Cup in 1905, Making Speedway 

Record to Wagon of 1:02 1-4. Owned 

by W. D. Hunt 

C. H. Belledeu. reduced the previous mark of 
I ;o3 1-4, made by Tom Phair, to i :02 1-4, 
and the same afternoon Charlie Lockwood 
drove Louise E. a winning heat in i :o2, the 
former pacing record being the I :o4 1-2 by 
Phoebon W. 



SEASON OF 1906 



It proved that this year was a history-mak- 
ing period for the club, as in the month of 
January it was incorporated, and on Febru- 
ary 2, at a meeting of the incorporators at 
73 Tremont Street. Room 923, the Metropoli- 
tan Driving Club of Boston received its char- 
ter from the State of Alassachusetts. This act 
required a new election of officers, as under 
the charter the annual election shall be held 
on the second Wednesday of January of each 
year. Dues to the chartered club were placed 



The Driving Clubs of Greater Boston 



37 



at $io annually, and life nicnibership upon 
payment of a fee of $150. 

Not all of the vice-presidents and board of 
directors being elected at the meeting held on 
February 2, the complete list of officers was 
concluded at a meeting held on the 24th, at 
the same place, the following being elected 
for the year, the board of directors having 
been increased from ten to fifteen in the mean- 
time : C. H. Belledeu, president ; A. S. Bige- 
low, C. W. Leonard, John Shepard, Frank G. 



house and stable at Charles River Speedway, 
the minutes of the meeting reading as follows : 
Upon motion of Charles H. Traiser, 
seconded by George A. Graves, it was 
voted that the corporation purchase of 
Albert S. Bigelow and others acting as 
trustees of the Charles River Speedway, 
club, stable and the real estate and per- 
sonal property, situated upon the Charles 
River Reservation, Brighton, heretofore 
occupied and used by the Gentle- 
men's Driving Club of Boston, and 




METROPOLITAN CLUBHOUSE 
Purchased on February 24, 1906, from a Syndicate, Headed by Thomas G. Plant 



Hall, H. M. Whitney, J. V. N. Stults and 
Monroe Goodspeed, vice-presidents; M. C. 
Harrison, secretary and treasurer. Board of 
directors, C. H. Traiser, G. A. Graves, W. D. 
Hunt. H. M. Whitney, John Shepard, C. H. 
Belledeu, F. C. Gannon, W. J. Furbush, Isaac 
Sexton, H. J. Russell, L. N. Cushman, M. C. 
Harrison, M. Goodspeed, A. J. Furbush, and 
M. A. Nevens. Executive committee, W. D. 
Hunt, G. A. Graves, Isaac .Sexton, A. J. Fur- 
bush, and C. H. Traiser. 

It was at the meeting held on February 24 
that the vote was passed to purchase the club- 



that in consideration of the release 
of the subscribers under the trust 
upon which said property is now 
held, that each of said subscribers, Albert 
S. Bigelow, John E. Thayer, John Shep- 
ard. Chas. Whittemore, George G. Hall, 
C. W. Marks, Walter B. Farmer, James 
A. Hathaway, William D. Hunt, C. W. 
Lasell, Benjamin Pope, Henry C. Jackson, 
Arthur H. Alley, George F. Leonard, 
George A. Graves, B. F. Button, George 
A. Litchfield, B. W. Currier, Ralph B. 
Williams, Thomas D. Blake, E. C. Swift, 



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Charles H. Traiser, George R. Woodin, 
Charles W. Leonard, C. H. Belledeu, 
George R. Hall, Frank G. Hall, Stearns 
R. Ellis, George W. Norton, George A. 
Fales, Francis P. Sprague, Caleb S. 
Spencer, John O'Connor, and P. B. 
Bradley, be and hereby are elected to hfe 
membership in the Metropolitan Driving 
Club of Boston, and that for the purpose 
of efifecting said purchase the treasurer 
be authorized and directed to issue to 
each of said subscribers an agreement that 
in the event of the dissolution of the 
Metropolitan Driving Club of Boston, 
this corporation will pay to each of said 
subscribers the amount subscribed by him 
under said trust for the purchase of the 
"Charles River Speedway Club Stable" 
of said property, and in the event of the 
assets of the Metropolitan Driving Club 
of Boston not being sufficient to pay in 
full the amount so subscribed, that each 
of the above mentioned subscribers shall 
be paid the amount due him in proportion 
to the assets of this corporation at the 
time of such dissolution. 
On motion of Charles H. Traiser, seconded 
by W. D Hunt, it was voted that in considera- 
tion of the transfer to this corporation of all 
the assets of the unincorporated association 
heretofore known as the Metropolitan Driv- 
ing Club, that the entire membership of said 
association be admitted and are hereby ad- 
mitted to membership in this corporation and 
that all members hereby admitted are to be 
exempt from dues until after October i. 1906. 
At a meeting of the directors on April 7. the 
resignation of M. C. Harrison as treasurer and 
secretary was presented and accepted, and 
upon the motion of C. H. Traiser it was voted 
to proceed to the election of a secretary and 
treasurer, and W. D. Hunt was declared 
elected upon receiving the whole number of 
votes cast. 

Thomas G. Plant was elected a life mem- 
ber of the club on May 11, and on August 27 
was purchased about 3,715 feet of land ad- 
joining the clubhouse. The executive com- 
mittee recommended on December 11, that the 
annual dues for all new members be $20 for 
the first year, from the first of January, and 
$10 per year thereafter. 

The house-warming was held by the club on 
December 26, about 100 members being pres- 
ent. It was the first time that a business 
meeting had been held in the clubhouse since 
it became the property of the Metropolitan 
Club. The improvements in the clubhouse and 
the new stables met with the approval of 
those members present. 



The matinees of the season of 1906 attracted 
a liberal list of entries and starters, and were 
productive of good contests, though none of 
the speedway records were lowered. Two 
cups were offered for the Spring series and 
four for the Fall series, and resulted as fol- 
lows : 

SPRING SERIES 

Point cup for trotters — Monroe Goodspeed's Zambia. 
Point cup for pacers — A. J. Furbush's Chief Wilkie. 

FALL SERIES 
Trotters 
Speed cup — F. E. Burnham's Bert S. 
Point cup — C. H. Belledeu's Dash. 

Pacers 
Speed cup — A. J. Furbush's Chief Wilkie. 
Point cup — A. J. Furbush's Marchwood. 

At the conclusion of the regular Fall series 
of matinees the directors of the club thought 
that, on account of the expenditure of so much 
money in renovating the clubhouse and build- 
ing new stalls in the stables, it would be advis- 
able not to give any ribbons or cups for the 
snow racing, thus saving that much for the 
treasurer to expend in other ways, perhaps 
more necessary. 

Therefore, when the sleighing came in De- 
cember, the racing was of the impromptu 
character until the 30th of the month, when 
one race was put on which was won by Col- 
bath, owned by A. C. Furbush, in five closely 
contested heats. 

The result of this race clearly demonstrated 
that it was a mistake not to have had ribbons 
and cups given for the Winter season. There- 
fore, several of the prominent members of 
the club devised a scheme to raise by subscrip- 
tion sufficient funds to purchase trophies and 
ribbons for events to be decided while the 
sleighing lasted. 



SEASON OF 1907 



The first event of importance was the an- 
nual election of officers which resulted as fol- 
lows : President. C. H. Belledeu ; vice-presi- 
dents, A. S. Bigelow, John Shepard. AI. Good- 
speed, H. M. Whitney, C. W. Leonard, F. G. 
Hall, J. \'. N. Stults ; secretarv and treasurer, 
W. D. Hunt; directors, A. H. Parker, C. A. 
Graves, C. H. Belledeu, Isaac Sexton, M. 
Goodspeed, F. C. Gannon, C. H. Traiser, W. 
T. Furbush, John Shepard, W. D. Hunt, G. H. 
Hicks, H. j. Russell, A. J. Furbush, L. N. 
Cushman, and M. A. Nevens. Executive 
committee, G. A. Graves, Isaac Sexton, A. J. 
Furbush, C. H. Traiser, and W. D. Hunt. 

In the first week of January came the an- 
nouncement from the Fasig-Tipton Co., of 



The Driving Clubs of Greater Boston 39 

New York through their Boston representa- A. J. Furbush's br. m. Loma (Mr. Furbush) 2 2 

tive. Wilbur L. Duntley, that they had do- J' ^"""'^ "''• ^xf^^P-L^-^s'' s^aTi ^ ^ 

nated a cup for the champion snow trotter of . '' , ,. . . 

<-! r-i 1 -o- „_ c.^„„^,„^,, +1-.^ f^^^l-,-,T f^ Ko Hunt prizes (for trotters), second division, 

the Charles River Speedway, the trophy to be ^v. J. Bates' ch.g. Welchman (Mr. Trout) i 2 i 

won two years before becoming the property Salter Cobbetfs eh. m. Wavelite (Mr. Cob- 

of the winner, and all contesting horses to be bett) 3 i 2 

driven by bona-fide owners, all aspirants to W. J. Furbush's b. g. Little Ben (Mr. Fur- 
race three days in each week of sleighing, bush) ...... .^ 2 ,3 3 

quarter-mile heats. The Metropohtan Driv- ^'"""^ iA^-^^-, 34 i-4s., 345. 

ing Club of Boston was made custodian of the ^^."""t prizes (for trotters), hnals. 

=■,,,, 11 1 i I Vv- J. Bates ch. g. W elchman (Mr. Trout) i 

cup and all contestants were compelled to be ^ g Ralston's b. g. Little Bill (Mr. Ral- 

members of that body. ston ) 2 

Following this liberal offer from the New Time— 33s. 

York horse sale firm, came other donations \v. J. Furbush prizes (for pacers), 

from the club members. John M. Brison gave A. J. Furbush's ch. g. C. E. Jordan (Mr. 

a cup, a sweepstakes event for pacers, open to ,- '/'^i'f^ ■,■ ; — '„ ' ; ' „' ' ■/■,'/ ' \.' ; ~ ' ' 

V r 1 , 1. 1 t ^ J M. A. Nevens b. g. Rob B. (Mr. N evens) i 2 2 
members of the club, the same to go to the one p^^d Furbush's gr. g. Outcast (Mr. Fur- 
winning the greatest number of races during bush) 3 3 3 

the sleighing season. Fred Horton, of Provi- Time— 333-45, 35s., 32 i -2s. 

dence, a member of the club, gave what wa;. Horton cup (for trotters). 

called the Horton cup, to go to the fastest Thomas G. Plant's blk. m. .\lice Carr (Mr. 

trotter of the Winter. Then, there was, too. „ "'/"V ''.",■ W 'V^:"W'^.'W ' ' 

, r ■ jT ui 1 \ i 1 • Fred Horton s br. m. Alga \V. (Mr. Belle- 

a number of prizes of blankets, oats, whips. ^^^^^ a ^ ^ ^ 

etc., the largest contributor being W. D. Hunt, Isaac Sexton's br. li. Tom Phair (Mr. 

his offerings being described as the Hunt Se.xton) 3 3 

prizes which went for trotters not taken care Time— 32 3-45., a 3-4s. 
of by the Horton cup ; and W. J. Furbush Pacing Championship, 
filled the gap by taking care of the pacers not ^^_- ^- Bennett's cli. g. Mardel (Mr. Ben- 
eligible for the' Brison cup. _ wXm Emerson's 'bn'm.' Louise eV (Mr. ' ^ ' 

On V ebruary 26 came the final sleighing Lockwood ) 2 i 2 

matinee for these trophies. There were so Time — 323-4S., 323-4S., 32 1-45. 
many starters for the Hunt prizes that the 

event was divided in two divisions, the winner On March 6 there was decided an event for 
of each to race off the final. H. B. Ralston the valuable cup, that was donated to the 
won the first division with Little Bill and W. J. club by an unknown member, between Mer- 
Bates won the second with Welchman. In the cury Wilkes, driven by Al Furbush, and Ma- 
final between these two horses, the latter jor, owned and driven by D. Nelligan, and 
proved the best and took the prize and honors, was won by the former, thus giving him three 
For the pacing championship, Mardel secured victories, which were required to make him the 
the Brison cup by defeating Louise E., while property owner of the cup. 
C. E. Jordan proved the best of the ones The important feature of the Summer rac- 
starting for the Furbush prizes. i"g came on October 16, when Mack Mack, 
There was great interest in the event for - :o8, owned and driven by George A. Graves, 
the Horton cup, as the contests through the made his debut in the matinees, meeting the 
Winter had been very close between Alice fast gelding. Chase, 2:071-4. During the 
Carr, Alga W. and Tom Phair, and this race. Summer Mack Mack had been participating in 
being a deciding one, brought a tremendous f^e matinees at the Readville track, there hav- 
crowd to the speedway. The cup went to i"g been nothing fast enough for him to meet 
Alice Carr in straight heats. However, she had "i the free-for-all trotting class at the speed- 
a stiff battle in each, in the first one barely ^^"ay. but with Chase again in condition, he 
winning right at the wire. After the race was brought over to give him a battle. 
Thomas G. Plant returned the Horton cup to Much to the surprise of the large number 
the club for further competition. The first of spectators present. Chase reeled oft' the 
leg of the Fasig-Tipton cup was won by Tom first heat in i :oo 1-4, a clean cut of two sec- 
Phair, and remained with the club according onds from the record of the speedway proper, 
to conditions for further competition the next I" the ne.xt two heats, however. Mack Mack 
Winter. held his opponent safe when it came to the 
Chailes River Speedway, Feb. 26, 1907.— Hunt ^^^^ hundred yards, and showed his rare turn 
prizes (for trotters), first division. of Speed by taking his second heat in i :oo 1-4, 
H. B. Ralston's b. g. Little Bill (Mr. Ralston) i i thus equaling what Chase had previouslv ac- 



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complished. He then came back so strong in 
the tliird heat that the time was ann<nmced 
I :oo 1-2. This race was decided over the up- 
per road. 

The result of the Spring and Fall matinees 
for the cups were as foUow's: 

SPRING SERIES. 
Trotters 
Speed cup— Isaac Sexton's Tom Phair. 
Point cup — C. G. Newcomb's Geoi'ge Lee. 

Pacers 
Speed cup— -\. J. Furbush's Cliief Wilkie. 
Point cup— A. J. Furbush's Al Ray. 

FALL SERIFS 
Trotters 
Speed cup— C. H. Belledeu's Chase. 
Point- cup— F. H. Garmon's Flulman. 
Second point cup— J. A. Craig's Lady Kloiidyke. 
Third point cup— E. Phillips' Gloria Rex. 

Pacers 
Speed cup— E. Phillips' Al Ray. 
Point Cup — M. F. Maher's Belle Gold. 
Second point cup— .A. T. Watts' Elmwood. 



SEASON OF 1908 

The annual election was held on January 8, 
and resulted as follows: President, C. H. 
Belledeu; vice-presidents, A. S. Bigelow, H. 
M. Whitney, F. G. Hall, J. V. N. Stults, John 
Shepard, C. W. Leonard, and Monroe Good- 
speed; secretary and treasurer, W. D. Hunt; 
directors, A. H. Parker, C. H. Belledeu, C. H. 
Traiser, W. J. Furbush, L. N. Cushman, W. 
D. Hunt, M.Goodspeed. G. A. Graves. Isaac 
Sexton, F. C. Garmon, G. H. Hicks, E. A. 
Bayley, J. V. N. Stults, A. J. Furbush, and 
lohn Shepard: executive committee, J. V. N. 
Stults, \V. D. Hunt, Isaac Sexton, C. H. Trai- 
ser, A. J. Furbush, W. B. Farmer, and E. A. 
Bayley. 

On February 3, the resignation of George 
A. Graves was accepted from the board of 
directors, and Walter B. Farmer was elected 
in his place. Then, on February 12, C. H. 
Traiser resigned from the board of directors, 
as did W. D. Hunt, from the board and as 
secretary and treasurer. Charles H. Dow and 
Cyrus C. Mayberry were elected to take the 
place of the two members that resigned, and 
the latter was also elected to the executive 
committee. Charles H. Dow was made treas- 
urer of the club, and \\'ilbur L. Duntley the 
secretary. 

There was very little sleighing during the 
Winter, a day now and then, and it was only 
by extreiue effort that the owner of the Fasig- 
Tipton cup was decided. Isaac Sexton, with 
Tom Phair, secured the trophy by exactly win- 



ning the necessary five races, as required un- 
der the conditions. 

In the Spring matinee of June 30, the speed- 
way proper being heavy from showers, the 
racing was done on Soldiers', or as called, up- 
per road, and it developed, with the strong 
wind that blew directly in the rear of the 
horses, to be an afternoon of extreme speed. 
In the first place, Claymos, owned and driven 
by W. J. McDonald, stepped off a winning 
heat in 57 3-4 seconds, and Phoebon W. was 
right at the winner's heels up to three lengths 
from the wire, when he went to a break. 

The important feature of the Fall series was 
Harry W^ood's gelding, Sid Axworthy, on No- 
vember 3, setting a new mark for the upper 
read speedway for trotters by winning the 
first heat of his race in 58 3-4 seconds. About 
all the winners that day lowered their previous 
efforts in matinee racing, Tom Phair doing a 
heat in i :oo 1-2, wdiile Billy Ross stepped off 
one in 1 :02 1-2. 

There had been so much agitation about 
double-team racing that the racing committee 
finally decided to put an all-star racing bill for 
l.orses hitched to pole, to take place on No- 
vember 24. There was a scurrying around 
of the members in securing mates for the 
horses each owned, in order to head the sum- 
mary and have the distinction of being the 
owner of one of the pair to trot, or pace, the 
fastest heat of the day. 

When the entries were aniiounced it looked 
as though Tom Phair anrl Jim Ferry, that 
were matched against Dodie K. and Talpa, 
would be the star trotting event of the after- 
noon. While for pacers. Cinch and Reliance 
against My Star and Phoebon W. was the 
principal attraction. 

The initial heat of the fast trot was marred 
by Dodie K. and Talpa running away with 
A. J. Furbush. It looked, at one time, like a 
very nasty mix-up in which the lives of several 
spectators and those in the nearby teams were 
in danger, and only through the bravery of A. 
Jameson, of Somerville, wdio caught and hung 
on to the horses until he brought them to a 
standstill, was this prevented. Tom Phair 
and Jim F^erry spanked oft" two rattling heats 
in I :o5 and i :o6 1-4, and later, to show that 
they were the kingpins of the speedway hitched 
to pole, they won a heat from Martha G. and 
The Baron in i :o6 1-4. 

For the pacers, Cinch and Reliance de- 
feated My Star and Phoebon W., without a 
waver, tramping their heats in the fast time of 
I :o4 1-4 and 1 :o5. It was in every way the 
greatest afternoon of double-team racing that 
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41 



fore, and on that account the complete sum- 
mary of the events is herein given : 

Charles River Speedway, Nov. 24. 1908. Class A. 
trotting. 
Isaac Sexton's br. h. Tom Phair and S. L. 

Tingley's gr. g. Jim Ferry (Page) i t 

A. J. Furbush's blk. m. Dodie K. and W. J. 

McDonald's b. m. Talpa (Furbush) 2 dr 

Time — 1 :o5, i :o6 1-4. 

Class B, pacing. 
A. J. Furbush's ch. g. Cinch and b. g. Reliance 

(Furbush) i I 

W. J. Furbush's ch. g. My Star and Miles Hol- 

den's br. g. Phoebon W. (Furbush) 2 2 

Time t :o4 1-4, i 105. 

Class C. trotting. 
W. J. Furbush's b. g Carl C. and Harry Wood's 

b. m. Susie F. (Furbush) i I 

George D. Merrill's b. g. Earl King and H. H. 

Cook's b. g. Billy Ross (Merrill) 2 2 

Time — i :24 1-4, 1 : 17 1-4. 

Class D. pacing. 
J. W. Coaklev's ch. g. Red Echo and ch. g. 

Wildwood (Coaklev ) i 1 

H. G. Reid's b. g. Colbath and L. A. Beane's 

b. g. Go See ( Beane ) 2 2 

Time — i : 12 1-4, 1 :oQ 1-4. 

Class E, trotting and pacing. 
H. C. Reid's b. g. Colbath and L. A. Beane's 

b. g. Go see ( Beane ) i 

F. C. Garmon's blk. m. Martha G and Jesse 

Eddy's blk. g. The Baron (Garmon) 2 

Time — i :oo. 

Class F, trotting. 
Isaac Sexton's br. h. Tom Phair and S. L. 

Tingley's gr. g. Jim Ferry ( Page) i 

F. C. Garmon's blk. m. Martha G. and Jesse 

Eddy's blk. g. The Baron (Garmon) 2 

Time — i :o6 1-4. 

The result of the Spring and Fall series of 
matinees is told by the following prize win- 
ners : 

SPRING SERIES 
Trotters 
Champion cup — C. H. Belledeu's Chase. 
Speed cup — A. J. Furbush's Dodie K. 
First point cup — Walter Corbett's Lord Quex. 
Second point cup — H. H. Cook's Billy Ross. 

Pacers 
Champion cup — W. J. McDonald's Claymos. 
Speed cup — W. J. Furbush's My Star. 
First point cup — E. S. Morse's Edith J. 
Second point cup — J. D. Thompson's Dean Swift. 

FALL SERIES 

Trotters 
First speed cup — C. H. Belledeu's Chase. 
Fastest average heats — A. J. Furbush's Dodie K. 
First point cup — Walter Corbett's Lord Quex. 
Second point cup — H. H. Cook's Billy Ross. 
Third point cup — J. Doherty's Alclay H. 
Slow trotting cup — D. A. Thompson's Patricia. 
London harness — A. J. Furbush's Dodie K. 
The Wood cup — A. J. Furbush's Dodie K. 
The Daniels cup — A. J. Furbush's Dodie K. 
The "hard luck" cup — Fred Furbush's Forest Bingen. 



Pacers 

First speed cup — W. J. McDonald's Claymos. 
Fastest average heats — Frank M. Burke's My Star. 
First point cup — E. S. Morse's Edith J. 
Second point cup — J. D. Thompson's Dean Swift. 
Third point cup — S. Schoolman's Colbath. 
Slow pacing cup — E. A. Fuller's Bobby Patchen. 
The "hard luck" cup — C. A. Thompson's Lanter. 

The John Shepard cup for women road 
drivers to single hitch, which had been under 
dispute since the Winter before, was awarded 
to Mrs. H. H. Cook. 



SEASON OF 1909 



For the third term C. H. Belledeu was given 
the office of president, the election being on 
January 13, and the other officers were as fol- 
lows : \'ice-presidents, A. S. Bigelow, H. M. 
Whitney, F. G. Hall, John Shepard, C. W. 
Leonard, Monroe Goodspeed, J. V. N. Stults : 
treasurer, C. H. Dow ; secretary, W. L. Dunt- 
iey ; directors, John Shc'pard, C. H. Belledeu, 
W. J. Furbush, Monroe Goodspeed, Isaac Sex- 
ton, F. C. Garmon, A. J. Furbush, E. A. Bay- 
ley, C. H. Dow, B. W. Gove, Henry Wood, 
B. W. Carpenter, R. A. Spaulding, Walter B. 
Farmer, C. C. Mavberrv ; executive commit- 
tee, F. C. Garmon,' C. H. Dow, C. H. Belle- 
deu, A. J. Furbush, Isaac Sexton, B. W. Car- 
penter, C. C. Mayberry. 

It was voted to adopt blue as the club's 
color in all interclub meets. On November 
24, the resignation of R. A. Spaulding, from 
the board of directors, was accepted and J. V. 
N. Stults was elected in his place. 

Records over the speedway proper were set 
skiting on June 22, Superintendent Gilman, 
not only having the course on feather edge, 
but the day itself being conducive to fast 
time. Chief Wilkie, 2:12 3-4, set a new record 
for two heats by a pacer by covering the half- 
mile in 59 and 58 seconds, respectively. 
The last heat was the fastest ever made over 
the speedway proper, though Claymos, last 
year, paced a half on the upper road in 
57 3-4 seconds. 

The race of the afternoon, however, was 
the fast trotting class in which the double- 
gaited mare, Louise G., pulled off a hard- 
earned victory at the end of the fourth heat. 
The daughter of Alclayone finished ahead in 
all but the second heat, but the judges very 
properly set her back last for pacing in the 
third heat. Fred Garmon's trim little black 
mare, Martha G.. came out of the contest, 
while not the winner, yet covered with glory, 
as, by taking the third heat in i :oo 3-4, she 
gained for herself the distinction of lowering 



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the trotting record over the regular speedway Speed cup— \V. J. Furbush's Louise G., i ;o3, i ;oi 1-4. 

.,-„„ r^„ ^ ^, ,,-,(- n( tUo ;,-nr^r>,-t-in,-o nf I' irst poiiit cup — A. C. Furbush's Forest Bingen. 

course. Un account 01 tne importance 01 r, 5 . ^ •^ ii- 1^ r- 1 ..• t j r\ 

, •=^- ^ i . Second point cup — \\ alter Corbett s Lord Quex. 
these two races, the complete summary is 

given, as follows: Pacers 

Champion cup — A. J. Furbush's Chief Wilkie. 58s. 

Charles River Speedway, June 22, 1909, Class E, Speed cup— W. J. McDonald's Claymos, i :oo 1-4, 

pacing. I :oi 1-2. 

A. J. Furbush's b. g. Chief Wilkie (Furbush) i i pjrst point cup— J. D. Thompson's Dean Swift. 

W. J. McDonald's b. g. Claymos (McDonald) 2 3 Second point cup— F. \V. Dorr's Toppan Boy. 

H. J. Reid's ch. g, Edwin S. (Furbush) 4 2 

Jesse Eddy's b. g. Sir Albert S. (Garmon)... 3 4 FALL SERIES 

Time— 59s , 58s. Trotters 

Class I trottino- Champion cup — L. Fred Sanborn's Billie J., i :02. 

W. J. Furbush's b'. m. Louise G. (Fur- Speed cup— W. J. McDonald's Dodie K., 1:021-4, 

bush) 1 3 4 I I •03- 

Walter Corbett's blk. g. Lord Quex Point cup— Harry W ood s Susie F. 

(Ralston) 3 i 2 2 Second point cup — H. H. Cook's Billy Ross. 

F. C. Garmon's blk. m. Martha G. Cup for trotter winning the most heats in 1:10 or 

(Garmon) 2 4 i 3 slower — T. H. Hubbard's Blue Clay. 

J. W. Coakley's ch. g. Crown Prince 

(Coakley) 4 2 4 4 Pacers 

Time — 1:03, 1:021-2, 1:003-4. 1:011-4. Champion cup — \\ . J. McDonalds Claymos, 1:00. 

Speed cup — W. J. McDonald's Chief Wilkie, i :oo 3-4, 

At the conclusion of the Fall series of mat- „ V°'- ,,. ^ „ ^ , , ^ ■ r- 

, , ,,r r. 111 C11 1 .1 ^^ Point cup — vv. J. rurbushs Louise G. 

mees, John \\ . Horey, who had hlleu the po- g^^^^^ ^^.^^^ cup-W. J. McDonald's Blue Light, 

sition of chairman of the race committee for Cup for pacer winning the most heats in i :o7 or 

two years, was called into the main office in slower — C. J. Newcomb's Chester Boy. 
the clubhouse and presented with an elegant 

gold watch. Superintendent Oilman was not „„.„„,, „„ ,„,„ 

forgotten by the members of the club, and bH-AtsUJN Ut IVIO 

was the recipient of a fur-lined overcoat. . ^ , T , , , 

Air Dorev's work, as chairman of the race -^ meeting of the directors was held on Jan- 
committee, could not have been excelled. It nary 7. when it was voted that the initiation fee 
was a particularly hard proposition, anyway, 1°' ^hat month be waived and that special ef- 
to please the members racing their horses, and ^^rts be made m securing new members. It was 
to match the different entries so that the rac- 'ilso voted that the cups for Spring and Fall 
ing would prove interesting, but in this Air. series of matinees in the future be purchased 
Dorev proved verv successful. ^f '>' '" ^'^f year and placed on exhibition, and 

Superintendent (lilman had, since the open- ^^ter the dose of each series of matinees, that 

ing of the speedwav. worked almost dav and *e awarding of the cups be within two weeks, 

night to have that' piece of racing dirt the ^^ was also voted that in the future the docu- 

fastest in the country, and that he had sue- '"^nts and records of the racing seasons be 

ceeded was amply attested by the feeling ex- turned over to the executive committee for ap- 

pressed by the active members of the club. P'^'^. , . . , , , , , , 

On October 14, the driving club gave its The annual meeting of the club was held 

first horse show, that was in everv way a pro- o" January 12. and the following officers were 

nounced success. About 2,000 spectators wit- ejected for the ensuing year: President, F. C. 

nessed the show from the clubhouse, in teams. <-f ™°" ' vice-presidents, A. S. Bigelow, F. G. 

and on foot The largest winner of the after- Hall. C. \\ Leonard. H. M. Whitney, John 

noon was Airs. Larz Anderson, with the sta- Shepard. AI. Goodspeed, J. V. N. Stults; 

ble of W. C. Jewett a close runner up. A treasurer. C. H. Dow ; secretary, W. L. Dunt- 

long program was finished without a hitch, ey ; directors John Shepard, C, H. Belledeu, 

the work of the judges giving general satis- V\ .J. Furbush, AI. Goodspeed, Isaac Sexton, 

faction. H. L. Camp. Aliddletown. Conn.. P.- \ Garmon, ] V. N. Stults, A. J. Furbush, 

judged all the classes, with the exception of f;- -^- ^f-y'«^>; ^- H. Dow, B. \\. Gove, 

the events for trotters and pacers, in which ^enry \\oocl, 1,. W. Carpenter, \\ . B. 

he was assisted bv T. ^^ N. Stults and Arthur ^^""f'^V ^- ^^^y^erry; executive commit- 

L. Power of the 'driving club. ^^' W Carpenter, F. C. Garmon, C. H. 

Following are the prize winners for the ^^""l' V V' ^^l'^^^^"' C- C. Alayberry, A. J. 

Spring and Fall matinee racing series: Inirbush. Isaac Sexton. 

On a rising vote the retiring president. C. H. 

SPRING SERIES Belledeu. was given a general expression of 

Trotters good will and esteem for his great executive 

Champion cup— F. C. Garmon's Martha G, 1:003-4. ability, demonstrated the three years that he 



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43 



guided the club. At the conchision of the elec- 
tion of officers, the record of the racing com- 
mittee was accepted, and on motion of A. \V. 
Davis a vote of thanks was tendered Chair- 
man J. W. Dorey for his excellent work dur- 
ing the season o; igoy. 

With the retirement of Mr. Dorev fr<Tm 




FRED C. GARMON 
President 1910-1911 and part of 1912 

the racing committee, G. Pray Smith was 
elected in his place as chairman. H. H. 
Cook was made ofificial handicapper, a new 
office for the club. 

At a meeting of the club held March 4, 
several changes were made in the racing rules. 
One was the racing olif of a tie at the end of 
a race for a position, and that the horse start- 
ing shall have one point, and any horse hav- 
ing a walk-over shall have two points. 

The second horse show of the club was held 
on May 19. With the record breaking crowd 
present, and the list of entries so large, it was 
imperative that the judging of the classes be- 
gin in the middle of the forenoon, and even 
then it was not concluded until after sunset. 
In the event for speedway trotters, H. H. 
Cook won the silver cup and blue ribbon with 
Billy Ross, while in the class for speedway 
pacers the silver cup and blue ribbon were 
taken by the speedway champion. Chief Wil- 
kie, the property of \\'. J. McDonald. Miss 
Eleanora Sears was one of the most conspicu- 
ous figures of the day, winning three blue 
and four red ribbons with the horses she 
drove. The officials were H. L. Camp, Middle- 
town, Conn. ; S. A. Maurvais, Millet, Mass. ; 



A. L. Power, Xorwell, Mass., and J. B. Stults, 
Boston, Mass. 

A review of the racing events showed that 
the contests were as liberally supported and as 
closely contested as had always been the case 
since the inception of the club, and, while the 
sport was exciting, yet no new speedway rec- 
ords were made. 

On the evening of July 8, at the clubhouse, 
the troj^hies for the Spring series were award- 
ed. The speed cup differed from the time cup 
inasmuch that it was for the fastest average 
time in a winning race, while the time cup 
was for the fastest heat. The winners were: 

SPRING SERIES 
Trotters 
Time cup — Chauncy Sears' Chase, 1:001-4. 
Speed cup — W. J. Furbush's Louise G., i :02 1-2. 
First point cup— B. \V. Gove's B. R. C. 
Second point cup— \V. J. McDonald's Dodie K. 
Slow Cup — T. H. Hubbard's Blue Clay. 

Pacers 
Time cup — Henry Reid's Edwin S., i :oi. 
Speed cup — E. F. Adams' Tony D., i :o2 3-4. 
First point cup — E. S. Morse's Billy F. 
Second point cup — C. C. Mayberry's Claberta. 
Slow^ cup — A. I. Nelson's Red George. 

FALL SERIES 
Trotters 
Time cup— F. L. Sanborn's Billie J., i :02 1-4, i :o2 1-2. 
Speed cup — B. W. Gove's Victor C, 1 :03 1-4. i :o4. 
First point cup— A. I. Nelson's Dandy Jim. 
Second point cup — W. J. McDonald's Munroe. 
Slow cup— H. B. Ralston's Cinnamon Girl. 

Pacers 

Time cup— \V. J. McDonald's Chief Wilkie, i :o2. 
Speed cup— E. S. Morse's Billy F., i :04 1-4, i :04 1-2. 
First point cup— C. A. Thomp.son's Johnny Smoker. 
Second point cup— A. C. Furbush's Louise Direct. 
Slow cup— M. F. Maher's Lady Pinewood. 



SEASON OF 1911 



The annual meeting was held on January 
II, and the following officers were elected: 
President, F. C. Gannon ; vice-presidents, 
A. S. Bigelow, F. G. Hall, C. W. Leonard, 
H. M. Whitney, John Shepard, M. Good- 
speed and J. V. N. Stults; treasurer, C. H. 
Dow; secretary, W. L. Duntley; directors, 
John Shepard, C. H. Belledeu, W. J. Furbush, 
C. S. Spencer, Isaac Sexton, F. C. Garmon, 
^^■. J. Lovell, A. J. Furbush, E. A. Bayley, 
C. H. Dow, B. W. Gove, Henry Wood, B'. W. 
Carpenter, A. L. Power and C. C. Mayberry ; 
executive committee, A. L. Power, C. H. 
Dow, A. J. Furbush, C. C. Mayberry, F. C. 
Garmon, C. H. Belledeu and W. J. Lovell. 

It was voted at this meeting that horses, to 
be eligible to start in interclub races, must 
have started in at least three regular matinees 



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over the home track, and to have been owned 
by a man who has been a member of the club 
for at least three matinees. Furthermore, that 
the Metropolitan Driving Club would not par- 
ticipate in interclub racing unless hopples were 
barred in the contests. 

So successful was the clambake, held in the 
Fall of 191 1, that the club agreed to make it 
an annual affair, the same to be left in the 
hands of the entertainment committee. 

At the regular meeting of the club, the res- 
ignation of E. A. Bayley as director and mem- 
ber of the club was accepted, much to the re- 
gret of the members, who appreciated the 
earnest efforts he made in promoting the in- 
terests of the organization. 

The annual horse show was fully as suc- 
cessful as the preceding one, and was handled 
admirably by Edgar Power, E. A. Fuller and 
A. W. Davis. Later in the year, Maurice E. 
Dimond was elected chairman of the horse 
show committee. 

The owners of fast trotters and pacers were 
out in full force, as usual, during the racing 
season, and there was keen competition for 
the prizes offered. A feature of the wind-up 
of the Spring series was a dinner and dance 
at the clubhouse. Before the members and 
ladies sat down to the banquet table, the cups 
and ribbons were awarded to the winners of 
the various classes, Arthur Power, the official 
starter for the club, presenting the trophies. 

At the conclusion of the Fall series, a no- 
table fact that came to hand was that W. J. 
McDonald's Chief Wilkie had, during his 
speedway career, raced nearly one hundred 
heats close to a minute, and in one of the mat- 
inees that Fall he stepped two successive heats 
in 59 1-4 seconds. During the season he had 
taken the word in 18 regular races over the 
Charles River Speedway, winning 17 of them. 
This left no doubt, of course, that he was 
clearly entitled to the distinction of champion 
of all pacers owned by members of the club. 
The prize winners for the year were : 

SPRING SERIES 
Trotters 

Time cup — E. H. Merrow's Hawkins, i :02 1-2. 

Speed cup — C. A. Thompson's Margate, i :02 1-4. 

First point cup — T. H. Hubbard's Patricia. 

Second point cup — F. C. Garmon's Torreon. 

Slow cup — W. J. McDonald's Castle Todd, 1:193-8, 

First special ribbon — Edgar Power's Prince of Mo- 
naco. 

Second special ribbon — O. H. Johnson's Silence. 

Third special ribbon — E. J. Scanlon's Nancy Old- 
held, I :07 2-3. 

Pacers 
Time cup — W. J. McDonald's Chief Wilkie, I :oo 1-2. 
Speed cup — J. O. Reay's Wesley Summers, i :05. 
First point cup — C. C. Mayberry's Claberta. 



Second point cup — J. D. Thompson's Edith R. 
Slow time cup — T. J. Watt's Elmwood 1:125-8. 
First special ribbon — I. Buffington's Country Boy. 
Second special ribbon — E. S. Morse's Billy F". 
Third special ribbon — M. F". Maher's Lady Pinewood. 

The battle for cups in the Fall matinee 
series by the horses of the Metropolitan Driv- 
ing Club was very keen, and, in several in- 
stances, the lucky horse got the trophy by the 
narrow margin of one point. During the Fall 
season 330 horses started in the ten matinees, 
as compared with 304 in the Fall series of 
1910. 

Following is the official list of cup winners. 
As three pacers were tied with 30 points, the 
cups, according to rule, went to those having 
the fastest average time, hence Lady Pinewood 
and Chester Boy received the awards. 

FALL SERIES 
Trotters 
Time cup — W. ]. McDonald's Demarest, i :04 1-4. 
Speed cup — W. J. McDonald's La Boudie, i :02 1-4. 
First point cup — W. J. McDonald's Castle Todd. 
Second point cup — D. M. Holmes' Major Dillard. 
Slow cup — G. W. Norton's Ned Norton, 1:171-2, 

1:18. 

Pacers 
Time cup — W. J. McDonald's Chief Wilkie, 59 1-4S. 
Speed cup — S. B. Hastings' Star Lilly Bingen, 

1 :03 1-8. 
First point cup — C. G. Newcomb's Chester Boy. 
Second point cup — M. F. Maher's Lady Pinewood. 
Slow cup — W. J. Lovell's Helen L., i :i7 1-2, 1 :i8. 



SEASON OF 1912 



For the third successive year Fred C. Gar- 
mon was elected president of the driving club 
at the annual meeting, held on January 10, the 
other officers being as follows : Vice-presi- 
dents, John Shepard, T. H. Hubbard, ]. V. N. 
Stults," A. H. Parker, M. Goodspeed, A. J. 
Furbush, and C. H. Belledeu ; treasurer, C. H. 
Dow ; secretary, W. L. Duntley ; directors, 
F. C. Garmon, W. D. Hunt, C. H'. Dow, W. J. 
McDonald, Geo. F. Leonard, Henry Wood. 
W. J. Furbush, C. S. Spencer, B. W. Gove, 

A. H. Power, C. C. Mayberrv, Geo. D. Mer- 
rill, W. J. Lovell, A. H. Parker, and E. H. 
Kingman ; executive committee, F. C. Garmon, 
C. S. Spencer, C. H.- Dow, Geo. F. Leonard, 

B. W. Gove, A. H. Power, and C. C. May- 
berry. 

Superintendent Gilmaii having promised 
that the new half-mile track, located opposite 
the clubhouse and between the straightaway 
speedway and the river, would be ready for 
racing on April 19, it was voted by the club 
that the occasion be celebrated with a 
grand opening day, which wotild include a 
horse show and matinee racing, members of 



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45 



other clubs to be invited to send their horses 
and participate on that occasion. 

The excellent services rendered by G. Pray 
Smith and Jesse Eddy on the racing commit- 
tee in the past year were recognized by the 
club giving them a vote of thanks and the 
president appointing them to again serve in 
the same capacity the ensuing year. 

At the directors' meeting held on January 
25, Mr. Eddy resigned as secretary of the 
racing committee, and W. D. Hunt from the 
board of directors and racing committee. The 
vacancy of Air. Eddy was filled by the selec- 
tion of J. O. Reay. while Mr. Hunt's place on 
the board of directors was taken by A. J. Fur- 
bush. 

So much pressure was brought to bear on 
Mr. Eddy that, at the directors' meeting held 
iin February 21, he was once more put on the 
racing committee, with the position of secre- 
tary and clerk. \M:ile Mr. Eddy felt that his 
business connections were such that it was al- 
most impossible for him to spare the required 
time in filling the position, yet he did not dis- 
appoint the active racing members of the 
club and accepted the position for, at least, 
the coming season. 

It was decided, too, at this meeting that the 
horse show on April 19 be abandoned and the 
day be given entirely to matinee racing. 

On June 24 there was a surprise sprung on 
the members by President F. C. Gannon re- 
signing his position as president and director. 
It was voted by the board to lay the resigna- 
tion on the table, as they were loath to lose 
the services of Mr. Garmon during the bal- 
ance of the year, and it was thought that pos- 
sibly, by communicating personally with Mr. 
Garmon, he might be prevailed upon to change 
his mind and hold the chair. It was said the 
reason that Mr. Garmon tendered his resigna- 
tion was on account of his business. The 
board held his resignation on the table until 
the meeting held on November 18, at the very 
end of the Fall series of matinee racing, when 
they elected C. S. Spencer p-esident, to serve 
the unexpired term of Mr. Garmon. 

With the use ot the half-mile track for rac- 
ing, there was an impetus for the members to 
take part in the matinees, many more horses 
taking the word in the Spring series than had 
ever before in the early portion of the year. 
To the credit of Superintendent Gilman, the 
footing was very good for a track just built, 
and with use kept constantly improving, the 
time made in the different races showing that 
at no time was it very slow. 

The best heat by a pacer over the half-mile 
track for the Spring series was made by Chief 



Wilkie on June 18, when he stepped in 
I :o5 1-4. 

A peculiar condition prevailed in the trot- 
ting division, as, on July 9, three horses placed 
the record at the same notch, and each was a 
starter in the same race. First away was A. J. 
Furbush, winning the first heat with W. J. 
McDonald's Demarest in i :o7 1-4. Then the 
second trip Mr. McDonald, himself, won with 
La Boudie, and in the third, Chauncy Sears 
stepped his trotter, Aiaior Wellington, around 
the track in i :o7 i-4- The event, by the way, 
was won by Demarest, who trotted the fourth 
heat in i :o8 1-4. 

SPRING SERIES 
Trotters 
Time cup — W. J. McDonald's Demarest, 1:071-4. 
Speed cup — Chauncy Sears' Major Wellington, 

I :07 1-4. 
First heat cup — \. J. Furbush's Velzora (11 heats). 
Second heat cup— \V. J. McDonald's Castle Todd (10 

heats). 
First heat cup — (4-year-olds and under) — H. B. 

Ralston's Hector K. (12 heats). 
Second heat cup (4-year-olds and under)— H. B. 

Ralston's Codare (11 heats). 
Pacers 
TitTie cup— \V. J. McDonald's Chief Wilkie, 1:05 1-4. 
Speed cup — W. J. Furbush's Will Be Sure, i :o6. 
First heat cup — J. D. Thompson's Spim (13 heats), 

average time, 1:0811-13. 
Second heat cup— B. W. Gove's Mardel (13 heats), 

average time, 1:1023-26. 

The executive conmiittee decided that for 
the Fall series there would be no cups offered 
for prizes, the incentive to win being consid- 
ered sufficient with the awarding of ribbons 
for the different races. 

The principal feature of the series was 
Demarest, owned by W. J. McDonald, on Oc- 
tober 18, lowering the half-mile track record 
for trotters to i :o6 3-4, a reduction of one- 
half second. On October 19, over the straight- 
away speedway. Chief Wilkie paced a heat in 
I :oo, while on the same afternoon Demarest 
trotted his heat in i :oi, both of these per- 
formers being the property of W. J. McDon- 
ald. On November 19 Frank M. Burke, owner 
of the Fatherland Farm in Byfield, Mass., and 
who resides in Ipswich, ]Mass., brought to the 
Charles River Speedway the pacing mare, 
Aliss Adbell. with the intention of defeating 
Chief Wilkie, if such a thing were possible, 
and it proved that it was, as that afternoon 
the champion met his W'aterloo, the time be- 
ing I :oi 3-4. However, in justice to the de- 
feated king, it can be said that he was far 
from being in his best condition, and it was 
only that Mr. McDonald did not wish to dis- 
appoint the large crowd that had been attract- 
ed by the event, that he started him at all in 
the race. 



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The Driving Clubs of Greater Boston 



SEASON OF 1913 



The annual meeting of the club was held 
on January 8, with President C. S. Spencer 
presiding. Following the reading of the 
minutes of the last annual meeting, the elec- 
tion was held and G. Pray Smith was elected 
president for the ensuing year. Vice-presi- 
dents, John Shepard, A. H. Parker, W. 1. 
Furbush, C. H. Traiser, L. F. Sanborn, C. B. 
Holden, C. G. Newcomb; treasurer, C. H. 
Dow; secretary. W. L. Duntley; directors. 
C. S. Spencer. G. D. :\Ierrill, G. W. Norton, 
A. J. Furbush, C. H. Dow, T. H. Hubbard, 
C. A. Thompson, G. Pray Smith, W. J. 
Lovell, G. H. Hicks. W. J. .McDonald, A. L. 
Power, R. E. Thompson, E. H. Kingman, and 
C. C. Mayberry; executive committee, C. S. 
Spencer, W. J. McDonald, C. H. Dow, T. H. 
Hubbard, C. C. Mayberry. 

At a meeting of the directors on January 
i6, it was voted, on the motion made by C. C. 
Mayberry, that any directed who failed to at- 
tend every executive meeting of the board 
shall be asked to resign. This was on account 
of so many of the members of the board ac- 
cepting the position when elected, and then 
apparently forgetting that there was any such 
office for the remainder of the year, so far as 
rittending the meetings. It was also decided 
at this meeting that with the election of W. D. 
Hunt as chairman of the race committee, it 
would be left to him entirely in the appointing 
of his associates and a clerk. A. W. Davis 
was chosen to fill the position of press agent, 
in place of AMlbur L. Duntley. who had held 
the office since 1908. 

On February 18 the resignation of C. S. 
Spencer, as director and chainnan of the ex- 
ecutive committee, was received and accepted, 
and the board of directors voted that Presi- 
dent Smith be instructed to notify Mr. Spen- 
cer of the sincere regrets of the club that his 
business in New York was such that it neces- 
sitated his taking a residence there and sever- 
ing his connections with the Aletropolitan 
Driving Club. W. D. Hunt, not caring for the 
office of chairman of the racing committee, 
C. C. Mayberry was given the position, with 
the power to choose his associates and a clerk. 

The board voted on March 13 to purchase 
about loo.coo square feet of land, of which 
they had an option, located on the boulevard 
adjoining the clubhouse, and to be erected 
thereon a stable, and, also, to have certain 
improvements made in and around the club- 
house, the sum of money to be expended not 
to exceed $20,000. 

On July 24 the board met and voted that 



a hall be finished in the clubhouse, as per plans 
of W. J. McDonald. 

E. H. Kingman resigned his position as di- 
rector in July, and C. H. Dow the office of 
treasurer. \V. J. Furbush was elected to take 
the place of Mr. Kingman, while A. J. Fur- 
bush accepted the position of treasurer. On 
November 14 George A. Graves and W. D. 
Hunt were elected to the board of directors. 




G. PRAY SMITH 
President 1913-14 

Appreciatmg the expense for the State in 
keeping in repair the entire mile of the 
straightaway speedway, the members of the 
driving club had come to the opinion that it 
was quite unnecessary to compel the State to 
maintain the last half-mile of the course. The 
result of this was that, at a regular meeting 
of the directors, on April 4, J. O. Reay made 
the motion, which was carried, that the lower 
half-mile of the Charles River straightaway 
speedway course be abandoned, and that a 
committee consisting of Messrs. McDonald. 
Mayberry and Davis wait upon the Metropol- 
itan Park Commission and convey the vote of 
the club. 

Sleighing was limited during the Winter, the 
month of February furnishing the largest 
supply. On the 14th of that month, Chief 



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47 



Wilkie lowered the quarter-mile record for 
pacers, to sleigh, by winning the first heat of 
a winning race in 29 3-4 seconds. Miss Adbell, 
owned and driven by Frank Burke, was his 
opponent. The Spring matinees furnished sev- 
eral matters of racing interest. On June 3, 
Chief \\'ilkie lowered the pacing record of the 
half-mile track to i 104 3-4, going against time. 
June 17 Major Wellington reduced the trot- 
ting record for the half-mile track to i :o6 1-4, 
and in securing the honor won a very com- 
mendable race, as the following summary 
shows : 

Charles River Speedway (1-2 mile track). June 17, 

I :o6 1-4. 
Major \\'ellington. b. g. (Chauncy -Sears) 2 2 i i 
Demarest, b. g. (W. J. McDonald).... 1332 

Orale, br. m. (W. J. McDonald) 3 i 2 3 

Time — 1:091-4. 1:071-2, 1:061-4, 1:081-2, 

On May 30 was held the testimonial mati- 
nee to ex-President C. S. Spencer, whose 
business, as mentioned above, was calling him 
to reside in New York City. There was a large 
crowd out to do honor to the departing mem- 
ber of the club, and on all sides were heard 
expressions of regret that so valuable a mem- 
ber was lost to them. 

The prize winners for the Spring series of 
matinees were as follows : 



Time 



SPRING SERIES 
Trotters 
cup— Chauncy Sears' Major Wellington 



1913, Class I. trottin.,. 
Speed cup — W. J. McDonald's Demarest, i :07 1-4, 
First point cup — W. J. McDonald's Orale (40 points). 
Second point cup — C. C. Mayberry's Margate (37 
points). 

Pacers 
Time cup— W. J. McDonald's Chief Wilkie, 1:043-4. 
Speed cup — \V. J. Furbush's Will Be Sure, 1:061-2. 
I<irst point cup — George W. Norton's George N. (43 

points). 
Second point cup — A. C. Furbush's Ethel Direct {3s 

points). 

There were no cups offered for the I%ill 
series. A notable addition to the racing fra- 
ternity was George A. Graves with his trotter, 
Bronson, 2:12, and he amply proved how val- 
uable a speedway trotter he was by defeating 
his field week after week. 

On November i he set a trotting record for 
the half-mile track at 2:18 3-4, beating Major 
Wellington. Morine and La Boudie. There was 
a great deal of interest manifested in this race, 
as many thought they would see the downfall 
of Bronson by the mare Morine, owned and 
driven by Sam Hastings, that had been very 
successful in the professional races of that 
season, getting a record of 2 :o9 1-4 at Colum- 
bus, O. The week following Bronson again 



defeated the same field in straight heats, and 
further reduced the track record to 2:15 1-4. 
In the pacing division Chief Wilkie, as had 
been the case for a number of seasons, con- 
tinued to hold the championship. 



SEASON OF 1914 



The annual meeting and election of officers 
of the Aletropolitan Driving Club was held at 




JOHN S. OILMAN 

Supt. of Charles River Speedway. His Hard 

Work Made the Plant Perfect for the 

Amateur Horsemen 

the club on the evening of January 14, and 
the following officers were elected for the en- 
suing year: President, G. Pray Smith; hon- 
orary presidents, C. H. Belledeu and F. C. 
(jarmon ; vice-presidents, lohn Shepard, W. D. 
Hunt, J. M. Johnson, A. H. Parker, G. G. 
Hall, Chauncy Sears, A. W. Hastings, War- 
ren Kimball, Frank Burke, Fred H. Bellows, 
C. B. Holden, L. F. Sanborn, C. G. Newcomb, 
and G. A. I^aw ; secretary, W. L. Duntley ; 
treasurer, John N. MacLeod; directors, G. 
Pray Smith, George D. Merrill, George H. 
Hicks, George W. Norton, T. H. Hubbard, 
\\'. L Lovell. W. J. McDonald, C. C. May- 



The Driving Clubs of Greater Boston 



berry, A. J. Furbush, W. J. Inirbush. George 
A. Graves, Dr. C. A. Thompson, A. L. Power, 
R. E. Thompson, C. H. Traiser ; executive 
committee, W. J. McDonald, George A. 
Graves, C. H. Traiser. C. C. Mayberry, and 
G. Pray Smith. 

After remarks by the new treasurer and 1)y 
W. J. McDonald, relative to proposed building 
operations of the club, which were received 
with much applause, a silver ice cream set was 
presented to the president and Mrs. Smith, the 
latter the president of the Ladies" Auxiliary, 
and the token of esteem was received by Mr. 
Smith with appropriate words of thanks. 

It was voted by the club that no prizes, 
other than ribbons, be given for the racing 
awards of 1914. 



field that enjoyed the sport were George 
Leonard with his handsome trotter, Southern 
Spy; William Lovell with Margaret L., and 
Fred Garmon with Mokello, each of these 
horses showing up excellently in the snow 
matinees that they took part in. 

While there were no cups offered for the 
series of races, yet there was plenty of inter- 
est manifested, the racing being of a very 
brilliant order. Ruth D. made her initial start 
on the dirt on May 16, and showed her speed 
by defeating Chief Wilkie and taking the sec- 
ond heat in 1.05 1-2. On the igth of the same 
month. Chief Wilkie, to show that he was not 
a dead toad in the puddle, turned the tables on 
Ruth D.. not only beating her in straight heats, 
but lowering the half-mile track pacing record 




METROPOLITAN CLUB .STABLE 
Dedicated on July 25, 1914. A Perfect Home for the Horse in Its Sanitary and Model Construction 



At the directors' meeting, on April 29, it 
was voted that the club colors be blue and 
gold, and that in case of postponement of any 
Tuesday matinee that the meet be held on the 
following Saturday. 

Again this Winter the lovers of sleighing 
had but little of their favorite sport, the snow 
only lasting for a couple of weeks in the 
month of February. The racing fraternity 
were greatly excited over the arrival of a new 
Roman in the pacing field, J. O. Reay having 
purchased the prominent mare Ruth D., 
2:06 1-4. This mare had been campaigned for 
several years over both mile and half-mile 
tracks with pronounced success, and it was 
openly stated by Mr. Reay and his friends that 
it was the hope of the admirers of Ruth D. 
that she displace Chief Wilkie for the pacing 
championship. 

For some time, too, Frank Burke had had 
at his Fatherland Farm the pacing mare Miss 
De Forest, 2 105 1-4, and when the sleighing 
arrived she was shipped to the Mets' club 
stable. Among others new to the matinee 



to I :04, the first heat, and capturing the second 
heat in i :o6. 

On May 26 Demarest reduced the half-mile 
record for trotters on the two-lapped track to 
I :o4 3-4, defeating Major Wellington in 
straight heats. 

The warmest battle of the Spring series oc- 
curred on June 2, when Ethel Direct won her 
race in five grilling heats and in which event 
all four of the starters succeeded in annexing 
a heat. The summary of this race is appended : 

Charles River Speedway (i-J mile track), June 2, 
lyi-l — Class I, pace. 
Ethel Direct blk. m. (A. C. Furbush) 3 i 3 4 i 
The Pink Lady, b. m. (A. G. King) 42123 

Spim, b. g. (C. A, Thompson) 24412 

Miss Vassar, ro. m. (B. W. Gove).. 13234 
Time — 1:13, 1:081-2, 1:10, 1:111-2, 1:091-4. 

Bmnson was never in so good condition as 
in his Spring races, which was later proved 
by his remarkable professional campaign over 
the half-mile and mile tracks, where he won 
many races for his owner and driver, G. A. 
Graves. On July 7 he met the fastest field of 



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49 



trotters owned in the club, and defeated them 
in straight heats, lowering the previous rec- 
ord of the course to 2:141-2, as per sum- 
uiar_v : 

July 7, 1914 — Class F, trot — (1-2 mile track). 

Bronson, b. g. (G. A. Graves ) i i 

Major Wellington, b. g. (C. Sears ) 2 3 

Demarest, b, g. (W. J. McDonald) 4 2 

E. D. M., b. g. (A. J, Furbush ) 3 4 

Time — 2:151-2. 2:141-2. 

The dedication of the new stable was held 
on July 25, with 2,500 spectators present to 
see the matinee racing. It was a perfect day 
for the occasion, and the members were hos- 
pitably entertained by the Ladies' Auxiliary 
of the club serving a sumptuous luncheon in 
the clubhouse. 

Invitations had been extended to the other 
driving clubs of Greater Boston, and quite a 
liberal entry from them had been received in 
the seventeen races on the card. When the 
day's sport was concluded, it was found the 
Fellsways had won two blues, three reds, and 
one yellow ribbon ; the Ouannapowitts one 
blue, three reds, and one yellow ribbon ; and 
the Dorchesters, one blue, one red, and two 
yellow ribbons. 

In the fast pacing event, Ruth D., driven by 
Robert Thompson for Mr. Reay, equaled the 
half-mile pacing record of 1 104, held by Chief 
Wilkie over the circular track, by defeating 
Miss Adbell in straight heats, in the second 
one making her fast time. In the feature trot, 
W. D. Hunt's Mike Agan, driven by G. A. 
Graves, headed the summary, and won the 
first heat in 2:17 3-4. 

Between heats the members critically exam- 
ined and favorably commented on the model 
and sanitary construction of the new stable. 
It was found there were stalls for 54 horses, 
with offices for the trainers and sleeping 
rooms for the grooms. The stalls are located 
so as to give each plenty of light and fresh 
air, being all "outside rooms," as it were. A 
good point, too, was giving so much space on 
the inside of the stable, that in bad weather 
the horses could be jogged under cover, it onl\ 



taking ten laps around the interior to make a 
mile. The stable must make a valuable addi- 
tion to the already perfectly equipped quarters 
of the club. 

The annual clambake was held on Co- 
lumbus Day, October 12, and the affair was 
a gala one, the club holding in connection 
with the feast, a horse show of nine classes, 
a band concert, and a whole afternoon of 
very closely contested racing on the speed- 
v/ay. About 250 gathered in the south end 
of the new stable for the clambake spread, 
which was served under the direction of the 
Ladies' Auxiliary. One of the largest 
crowds ever at the speedway saw the racing 
and horse show and enjoyed the music. 
Everv inch of space in the clubhouse was 
occupied by the members and their guests. 

About twenty-five members of the club had 
a dinner at the Revere House on Oct. 23. The 
feature event of the evening was the presenta- 
tion to George A. Graves of a finely executed 
oil painting of himself and his trotting geld- 
ing, Bronson, the work of Wilbur L. Duntley. 
President Smith made the presentation 
speech. Following the dinner was discussed 
the improvement of the clubhouse. 

Following a meeting in the clubhouse the 
members and their wives and guests enjoyed the 
e\ening of Oct. 30 with a Hallowe'en party 
which was given under the auspices of the 
Ladies' Auxiliary. The clubhouse was pret- 
tily decorated with Hallowe'en novelties, and 
games of the night were held, including bob- 
bing for apples, potato race, etc., for which 
prizes were presented. A fortune-teller also 
caused much merriment. Dancing was en- 
joyed in the main room, while whist was 
plaved in the reception room. 

Of the Fall series of matinees there were 
two prominent features, the superiority of 
George A. Graves' Bronson in the fast trotting 
class and Frank M. Burke's series of victories 
with Miss De Forest in the fast pacing events. 
The popular little trotting mare, Martha G., 
the property of J- W'. Ellis, was also a consist- 
ent blue ribbon winner. 




The Ladies' Auxiliary of the 
Metropolitan Driving Club 



SIX years ago a ladies' auxiliary to a 
gentlemen's driving club was un- 
known, but G. Pray Smith had long 
fostered the thought that some day- 
there might be such an organization 
connected with the Aletropolitan Driving Club 
of Boston. 

The subject was discussed with the members 
of the club until in January, IQOQ, when, at an 
entertainment held in the clubhouse, Mr. 
.'-imith was requested to appoint a committee 
whose duties would be to organize a Ladies' 
.Vuxiliary to the Metropolitan Club, and the 
following ladies were placed on the commit- 
tee: Mrs. W. J. McDonald, Mrs. A. J. Fur- 
bush, Mrs. Fred C. Garmon, Mrs. \\'ilbur L. 
Duntley and Mrs. G. Pray Smith. 

(jwing to the numerous social engagements 
of the ladies it was not until the latter part of 
I'ebruary that a meeting, called by Mrs. W. J. 
McDonald, was held. Mrs. G. Pray Smith 
was elected chairlady, and then was born an 
organization, unique in its name and its ob- 
ject. 

One week later, on March 5, the first regu- 
lar meeting was held ; the work of the com- 
mittees was ratified, by-laws adopted and offi- 
cers elected. No precedent guided this young 
.organization. They were obliged, as it were, 
to blaze the way through unoccupied ground, 
but from the very first business principles 
were strictly adhered to, with the result that 
the auxiliary have always been a thoroughly 
organized working power, with this object in 
view : "To cement the bonds of friendship 
and advance the social interests of the Metro- 
politan Driving Club.'' 

The membership consisted of the mothers. 
wives, sisters and daughters of the members 
of the ]\Ietropolitan Club. The dues were 
placed at $3 per year, which entitled the mem- 
bers to many social advantages. The auxil- 
iary colors adopted were blue, which, set in a 
gold border, made a very pretty pin for the 
members. The following are the first officers 
of the auxiliary : 

President, Mrs, (j. Pray Smith; first vice- 
president, Mrs. C. H. Belledeu ; second vice- 
president, Mrs. W. L. Duntley; secretary, 
Mrs. Nellie Dorey; treasurer, Mrs. A. J. Fur- 
bush. Executive board — Mrs. F. C. Garmon, 
chairladv: Mrs. H. H. Cook, Mrs. Jesse Eddv, 
Mrs. \\'; J. McDonald and Mrs. G. D. Merrill. 
Entertainment committee — Mrs. W.J. McDon- 
ald, chairlady; Mrs. A. J. Furbush and ^Irs. 
B. W. Carpenter. Hospitality committee — 
Mrs. B. \V. Gove, chairlady ; Mrs. A. J. Fur- 
bush. Mrs. H. E. Prescott, Mrs. C. E. Austin, 
Mrs. T. T. Bailev and Mrs. [. Brigham. 



In 19 10 the only change in the list of offi- 
cers was Mrs. F. C. Garmon being elected 
secretary in place of Mrs. Nellie Dorey. 'I'he 
following year, Mrs. H. E. Prescott took the 
position of secretary. In 1912 the officers 
were the same, with .the exception of Mrs. 
G. D. Merrill becoming second vice-president. 
In 1913 Mrs. G. D. Merrill was first vice-presi- 
dent, and the second vice-president was Mrs. 
J. D. Thompson, the other officials being re- 
elected. 

After four years existence the members, 
feeling that there was a call for their activities 
outside of social duties, entered the realm of 
charity, and in the Spring of 1913 raised, 
through the generosity of their friends, and 
especially the members of the ^Metropolitan 
Club, a fund for the Floating Hospital ; out 
of this fund, in June, 1913, they paid $250 to 
the Floating Hospital for a permanent bed for 
five years, to be known as the Ladies' Auxil- 
iary and Metropolitan Driving Club Bed, and 
thus showed to the general public that the, 
members of the auxiliary and of the M. D. C. 
were not devoted entirely to pleasure, but that 
they wished to assist the unfortunate. A smail 
balance was left in the fund, which is still held 
sacred for the use of the Floating Hospital. 

At the annual election in 1914 the result was 
as follows: President, ]\Irs. G. Pray Smith; 
first vice-president, Mrs. G. D. Merrill ; second 
vice-president, Mrs. J. D. Thompson; secre- 
tary, Mrs. H. E. Prescott; treasurer, Mrs. 
A. J. Furbush. Executive board — Mrs. W. j. 
McDonald, chairladv; Mrs. F. C. Garmon, 
Mrs. A. C. Furbush, :Mrs. B. W. Gove and 
Mrs. A. I. Nelson. Entertainment committee 
— Mrs. F. C. Garmon, chairlady ; Airs. R. E, 
Thompson and Mrs. J. O. Reay. Hospitality 
committee — Mrs. H. F. Prescott, chairlady; 
Airs. A. C. Furbush, Mrs. T- Brigham, Mrs. 
C. B. Holden, Mrs. J. N. MacLeod, Mrs. E. C. 
Smith and Mrs. D. MacNevin. House com- 
mittee — Mrs. Jesse Eddy, chairlady ; Mrs. B. 
\\". Gove. Flower committee — Airs. J. D. 
Thompson, chairlady ; Airs. D. AlacNevin and 
Mrs. A. I. Nelson. 

Airs. Smith has held the ])osition of presi- 
dent throughout the entire history of the 
Ladies' Auxiliary, and, to her earnest en- 
deavors the big success of the auxiliary was 
largely due. She has excellent executive abil- 
ity that has enabled her to enroll about her a 
sincere body of workers. It is well known to 
the members of the Aletropolitan Club that any 
affair taken in charge by the Ladies' Auxiliary 
will be taken well care of and brought to n 
most successful finish. 




w. J. Mcdonald 

Owner of the Leading Matinee Stable of Trotters and Pacers in New England 



W. J. McDonald's Matinee Horses 




CHIEF WILKIE, 2:12 3-4 (W. J. McDonald Driving) 

Winner of Nearly One Hundred Heats in Close to a JNIinute. He Holds Straightaway Speedway Record, 

Pacing, of 58 Seconds, and Joint Holder of Half-mile Track Record of 1:04. Was Pacing 

Champion of Charles River Speedway for Eight Seasons 



W. J. MCDONALD'S MATINEE HORSES— Continued 





MISS ADBELL, 2:06 1-4 



LA BOUDIE, 2:10 




DEMAREST, 2:06 1-4 (Trotting a Fast Heat for Mr. McDonald) 





DON LABOR, 2:05 1-4 



DIRECTUM REGENT, 2:09 1-4 



W. J. MCDONALD'S MATINEE HORSES---Continued 




THE COUNSELLOR, 2:17 1-4 



MENDELL, 2:21 



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ORALE, 2:17 1-2 (Winning a Heat for Mr. McDonald) 





ECCE VOLO 



CASTLE TODD 



Well Known Members 

of the Metropolitan Club 





C. C. MAYBERRY 



JESSE EDDY 





SAM B. HASTINGS 



GEORGE W. NORTON 




GEORGE A. GRAVES 

Chairman of First Meeting Held in Organizing 

the MetropoUtan Chib 




BRONSON, 2:12 

Owned and Driven by G. A. Graves. Champion Trotter of Charles River Speedway in 1913-14, and Held 

Half-mile Speedway Track Record of 2:14 1-4. Won $4,395 in Professional Racing the 

Season of 1914. Photo Was Taken at Goshen, N. Y. 





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Owned and Driven by George F. Leonard. Fastest Green Trotter to Wagon in 190S, 

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Matinee Record to Wagon of 2:15. Owned and Driven by Arthur H. Alley 



FellsTvayi Driving Club 
of Somerville 

1908 1914 



COMBINATION PARK, MEDFORD 




A HOT FINISH 




STABLE SCENE---Walking the Horses Between Heats 



Fellsway Driving Club 



BELIEMNGthat Somerville was the 
center of a big territory filled with 
humanity who were lovers of the 
horse was the incentive for the 
forming of a driving club by the fol- 
lowing thirteen well known horsemen of that 
city : James I. Brooks, Frank E. Morrison, 
George M. Davis, Harry W. Litchfield, F. S. 
McKown. Daniel Paine. G. L. Davis, Fred B. 
Brown, A. Towle, William Patten, George N. 
Coyle, G. M. Welch, and William Garland. 

These men met on March 7, 1908, in the 
directors' room of the Colum1:)ia Building, 
in Somerville, and officially organized them- 
selves as the Fellsway Driving Club. After 
electing F. E. Morrison secretary pro tern, 
an adjournment was made for the following 
Friday evening, which fell on the 13th. 

While it is noticeable that the club was con- 
ceived b}- thirteen men, and held its first 
meeting on Friday the 13th, it might be 
fieemcd b\- superstitious people that it 
started under adverse circumstances, but the 
history of the club has since well proved 
that such was not the case. 

On this Friday evening, James I. Brooks 
presided, and, after he had deliberated on 
the obiect of the new organization, was held 
the first election of officers, which resulted 
as follows : President, James I. Brooks ; 
vice-president, George !\T. Davis ; treasurer, 
Harrv W. Litchfield ; secretary, Frank E. 
^Morrison : directors, B. R. Cobb, Georfre H. 
Cross, John ]\L Temple, George A. Law, F. 
S. Mclvown. Fred M. Viles, James Hen- 
nessey, George Carter, and A. E. Kenney. 
Fred Morrill was elected chairman of the 
racing committee and Frank Morrison as 
secretary, while Daniel Paine had charge of 
the ribbons. 

One important matter taken up was the 
appointing of a committee. Amos W. Shep- 
ard. chairman, to interview the Metropol- 
itan I'ark Commission on the location of a 
speedway which the club members decided 
ihey wanted built a half-mile long. The 
meeting closed with a very interestmg talk 
on speedways and future prospects by .Al- 
bion Towle, George M. Davis, .-\. E. Jones, 
.\. F. Kennev and George Coyle. 

So rapid was the growth of the club 
that at the very next meeting, held on March 
27, there were thirty-five members present. 
Permanent quarters were secured at 2 1-2 
Franklin Street, Somerville, which was 
called the Fellswav Clubhouse, and arrange- 



ments were made fur the purchase 01 fur- 
niture to have the room comfortable for the 
use of the memljers. It was further decided 
that the clul) hold weeklv meetings, Friday 




JAMES I. BROOKS 
President 1908-09 and 1911 

being the dav chosen. A committee was aj)- 
pointed to wait upon G. A. Graves about 
securing the use of Combination Park for 
matinee racing. 

The by-laws of the club were adopted on 
April 3, one of which was that the dues shall 
be $10 per year, payable $5 semi-annually, 
in advance. 

The members met in their new clubroom 
the evening of April 10, and they were much 
pleased v.'ith the way the committee had ar- 
ranged the spacious room. The racing 
committee brought in a report that the rules 
governing matinees held by the Fellsways 
be the same as those already in use by the 
Dorchester Gentlemen's Driving Club. 

At the meeting held on April 17, the com- 
mittee reported that the iMetropolitan Com- 
mission, while favorable for the building of 
a speedway, saw no way of doing it that 
year. It was then decided that the commit- 
tee find out the condition of the back-stretch 
of old ]\Iystic Park, as Mr. Brown, of the 
racing conuiiittee, claimed that it was in per- 
fect shape for racing of (|uarter-mile heats. 



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This committee's report was so favorable 
that at the next meeting the club decided to 
lease Mystic Park for its matinees that sea- 
son. Arrangements were then made to 
measure off a quarter of a mile and mark 
It with flags, and Ranee Wentworth was se- 
lected the starting judge. In the matinees 
ic was thought best to give two ribbons for 
each race, a blue and a red. Samuel Harris, 
to boom the club, contributed a track har- 
ness, the winner to be decided during the 
Sununer. 

Befcire the adjournment of the meeting 
the club voted to donate S25 to the Chelsea 
Fire Sufferers, which was the first, btit 
proved not the last act of charity rendered 
by the organization. 

The first matinee was held at JMystic Park 
the first week in May, and the members 
turned out in full force with their horses, 
enjoying a good afternoon sport. So many 
were in attendance that it was found advis- 
able to build judges' stands, one for the 
starter and the other at the finishing post. 

On ^lav J7 it was voted that a grand- 
stand be erected opposite the wire at the 
finish, and also decided that the harness, 
given by Mr. Harris, be awarded to the 
owner of the horse winning the most number 
of points. .\ silver cup was put up for a 
prize bv President Brooks and Secretary 
Morrison, for the horse winning the fastest 
l-.cat. 

On June i the club had increased to such 
jirojjortions that they felt like seeking new 
fields, and voted to enter into correspondence 
with the Ouannapowitt Club for the purpose 
of holding an interclub meet over the Read- 
■ng-\^'akefield track. .\t the following 
meeting the Dorchester Driving Club, hav- 
ing learned how fast the Fellsways were 
jumping into popularity in their section of 
Greater Boston, sent an invitation to join 
them in an interclub meet to be held at 
Franklin Field Speedway and this meet was 
decided on July it. 

G. .\. Law was ai^pointed on the board 
of directors on July i ^. and immediately be- 
came active in the affairs of the club. At a 
later meeting brown was adopted as the club 
color, to be worn in all interclub meets. 

The first meeting held over Combination 
Park was on Labor Day, and was a success 
in everv particular ; in fact, to use up some of 
the extra funds it was decided to purchase a 
pool table in order that the members of the 
club might keep in practice at their club- 
room during the long \Yinter evenings that 
would soon be at hand. 

On October 3 the club met the Quanna- 



powitts at Combination Park in an inter- 
club meet, which in every way was another 
money maker. 

It was then decided to wait upon G. A. 
Graves and lease Combination Park for the 
year 1909, for a sum not to exceed $2000 
with full privileges. Messrs. Thyng, Simpson 
and Dr. Richardson were appointed the com- 
mittee to attend to this. After seeing Mr. 
Graves, the report was that he would not 
think of leasing the park for less than $3000. 
The club then came back with an offer to 
split the difference, and call it $2500, and 
that President Brooks be added to the com- 
mittee to wait on Mr. Graves. Upon again 
seeing the owner of Combination Park, it 
was found that he would consider $2600, 
which price was agreeable, and, upon the 
motion of Secretary Morrison, it was voted 
that the club be incorporated and close the 
Combination Park proposition with Mr. 
Graves. 

However, it being found out later that 
i\lr. Graves would lease the track for $2200 
for the club's use on twenty-four Saturdays 
and five holidays, this was thought a better 
proposition than the one of $2600 and all 
jirivileges. and the $2200 offer was duly ac- 
cepted. 

At a meeting held bn December Q, the 
prizes for tlie season were given out, the 
President's Cup for the fastest heat made 
during the season being won by William 
Patten's John O'Donald. and the harness 
presented b^ W. H. Harris was won b\- H. 
\V. Smith's' Rovce \\'. 



SEASON OF 1909 



The lease of Combination Park was signed 
on Januarv 13, and was the first business 
transacted that year. In the month of Jan- 
uarv, too, was held at the Quincy House in 
Boston, the first banquet of the cluli, with 
about 200 on hand. After-dinner speaking by 
invited s:tiests from other clubs and by mem- 
bers of the Fellsway, and a good musical 
entertainment, made the feast one long to be 
rememliered ■ by those fortunate in being 
present. 

In Columbia Hall, Somerville, in Feb- 
rnarv, was held the first ladies' night. The 
pentle sex were present, not only from the 
Fellsway Club but accompanied by members 
of the other drivine: clubs. Dancing and a 
luncheon, also magic work by Walter Xew- 
bert. of the Dorchester Gentlemen's Driv- 
ing- Club, made the occasion very enjovable. 

The annual meeting took place on March 
3, and the following ofificers were elected for 



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63 



the ensuino- year: I'resident, James 1. 
Brooks: first vice-president, George M. 
Davis : seco'id vice-president, Daniel Paine ; 
secretary, Frank E. Morrison ; treasurer, 
[larry \\'. Litchfield: directors, E. H. King- 
man. ^^^ ^^'. Sprague, Knapp Forshner, B. 
i<. Cnhh. Geo. A." Law, W. W. Croft, A. 
Taylor, F. S. :McKo\vn, H. W. Smith, Dr. 
W. H. Hitchings ; clerk, F. E. Morrison. 

Interclub races were held with the Dor- 
chester Club on June 17, and that Sumnier 
were decided the interchih meets between 
the Fellsway, Ouannapowitt, Lynn and Dor- 
chester Clubs. The last named club won the 
elegant silver cup, the Fellsways finishing 
second : certainlv very creditable work. 

On the evening of September 29, Presi- 
dent Brooks was awarded the whip given 
oy the club as a prize to the mcmlier getting 
the largest number of members for the six 
preceding months. 

Since the inception of the club, the ladies 
had been very strenuous in their efforts to 
have the organization a big success. In 
ciearinir several of the earlier debts of the 
club, the women held socials, card parties 
and rummage sales, the proceeds going into 
the treasury of the club. Then, the magnifi- 
cent flag that swept over Combination Park 
was made bv the women admirers of the 
Fellswa>-s. In fact, the storv was never de- 
nied that the real working secretar^• of the 
driving club was ^frs. Frank E. Morrison, 
which iirobably accounted for the pains taken 
m a complete record of the events that 
t ranspired. 

In return fur all this labrir. the members 
concluded that the least the\' could do for the 
women was to extend to them the privilege 
of using the clubroom afternoons for meet- 
ings and social -gatherings, and, at a meet- 
ing held November to, it wis so voted. 

At the very last meeting held bv the club 
that year, in partial navment for the work 
IMrs. ^Forrison had done, a Christmas and 
Xew ^.'ear present was voted to he sent to 
her in the form of a check calling for $20. 

.\ busy driver in the matinees during the 
season was Charles R. Forshner, who won 
eight blue ribbons, came twelve times sec- 
ond, seven times third, and twice fourth, 
a total of 20 races. He won with Tower Rov, 
owned bv ^1. .\. Pero, the $85 matinee cart, 
and with Alice F.. a suit of horse clothing. 

The club lost two of its most valued mem- 
bers during the year in Dr. J. E. Richardson 
and Ranee Wentworth. Both were en- 
thusiastic horsemen and thoroughly at 
heart in everything beneficial to the club, or 
advancement of the horse. 



SEASON OF 1910 



In the mnnth o; January- the first impor- 
tant occasion was the annual bancpiet, held at 
the Ouinc>" House, Boston, and, as in the pre- 
vious ones, were present officials from all 
the neighboring driving clubs and the le;id- 
ing politicians of Somerville. .After-dinner 
speeches and vaudeville, with plenty of sing- 
ing and music, made the evening a memor- 
able one. 

Ir. I'ebruary was held the ladies' night, with 
dancing, luncheon, and an entertainment. 
There was h large, joyful party present. 

Arrangements were completed early in the 
vear with George A. Graves for the leasing 
of Combination Park for the season of iQio. 

^^'ith committees present at the Ouincy 
House from eacli of the five driving clubs 
of Greater Boston it was decided to hold a 
grand championship interclub series of 
matinees at Combination Park during the 
Summer months, the winning club to re- 
ceive a valuable silver cup, the emblem to 
represent the drivins?- club championship of 
Xew England. .All these events were to be 
decided over the Medford track, and the five 
clubs to take part were the Eellswav, Dor- 
chester, Aletropolitan, Ouannapowitt, and 
Lvnn. From each club ten horses were to 
be iiicked, five of the best trotters and the 
five fastest pacers. This made a field of 
fifty horses to take the word on racino- days, 
there being ten races on tl;e card, with five 
lior^es in each event. 

The annual election of officers was held 
on March 2. with the following result: Presi- 
dent. Daniel Paine : first vice-president, L. 
Fred Sanborn; second vice-president, Chas. 
\\'. Thyng; third vice-president, George A. 
Law : fourth vice-president, James S. 
AIcRae; treasurer, Geo, M. Davis; secre- 
tary, Frank E. Morrison ; directors. Tames T. 
Brooks, Harrv W. Litchfield. William \V. 
Sprague. Charles iM. Lockwood, P.. R. Cobb, 
Geo. N. Coyle, Frank S, ]\[cKown, A. Jame- 
son. W. A. Rice, Chas. Forshner. 

With the election of Air. Paine to the 
chair of honor, the club o-ave a rising vote 
of thanks to James I. Brooks, the retiring 
president, in having cleverlv steered the craH 
through the dangerous rapids in the early 
davs of tlie club. 

John W. Dorev was elected chairman of 
the racing committee. and his work 
throughout the Summer was verv com- 
mendable, giving satisfaction to all the mem- 
bers that raced horses under his classifica- 
tion. 

.At a meeting held on Alay 18, Represen- 



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tative Sidney B. Keene reported to the club 
that the bill for the new speedway had passed 
both the House and Senate and that the 
Park Commissioners had been authorized to 
survey the course and give an approximate 
cost of building a speedway. Mr. Keene 




DANIEL PAINE 
President 1910 

Dresented President Paine with the pen 
that the Governor signed the speedway bill 
with. However, through some slip or miss, 
the Fellsway Club, up" to this time (1914), 
have not had their speedway, which looked 
?o certain at the time Representative Keene 
addressed them. 

As the result of the interclub matinees, 
the championship cup went to the -Metro- 
politan Club, second place being taken by 
the Fellswav Club, which was considered 
excellent work for the club in beating out 
for positions organizations like thei' Dor- 
chester and Lvnn Clubs, not to mention the 
Ouannapowitt. 

The prize winners of 19T0 were as fol- 
lows : 

Trotters 
Championship cup— L. Fred Saiiliorn's Billy J.— 

Fastest heat, i :os. 
First point cup— C. E. Twombly's The Doctor. 
Second point cup — C. R. Forshner's Alice F. 
Third point cup— F. H. Odams' Charles H. 
Fourth point prize — W. A. Rice's Shimosa. 
Fifth point prize — B. W. Pike's Raritan. 
Sixth point prize — John Kennedy's May Barnes. 
Seventh point prize — M. A. Pero's Tower Boy. 
Eighth point prize — F. L. York's Peacemaker. 
Trotter winning the least number of heats — F. H. 

Odams' Lady Almont. 
Trotter averaging slowest time — J. F. Sterling's 

Dixie. 
Owner driving his horse in the most heats — Harry 

Davis' Earl W. 

Pacers 
Championship cup— J. I. Brooks' Young Chimes- 
Fastest heat, I :05. 
First point cup — F. S. McKown's Fifene. 



Second point cup — F. E. Morrison's Decima Deane. 

Third point cup— G. M. Welch's Watchman. 

Fourth point prize — Fred Brown's Independence. 

Fifth point prize — P. Hagerty's Mamie H. 

Sixth point prize — E. A. Sears' Captain Hall. 

Seventh point prize — G. N. Coyle's Ella Hal. 

Eighth point prize — H. J. Foster's Ben Agan. 

Pacer winning the least number of heats — Jack Wil- 
son's George S. 

Pacer averaging slowest time — E. H. Kingman's 
Grenadier. 
Note. — Charles R. Forshner during the season drove 

in si.\ty-three races, winning twenty firsts, twenty- 

tv. o seconds, fifteen thirds and six times fourth. 



SEASON OF 1911 



The annual banquet took place on January 
3, at the Hotel Langham, it being thought 
a good ide;i, for one season at least, to trv a 
new banquet hall instead of holding it in the 
same old place. There was the usual num- 
ber of after-dinner speeches, and the enter- 
tainment committee gave an excellent musi- 
cal program and vaudeville. Most of th^ 
members, at the conclusion of the dinner, 
adjourned to the nearest bowling alleys and 
indulged, until closing time, in finding who 
was the crack pin splitter of the club. This 
was not decided, however, as Frank Morri- 
son, George Coyle, and a couple of others 
asserted that their form was not up to the 
average on account of being physically un- 
fit, after the heavy banquet dinner, and so the 
bowling championship for individuals was 
left to be determined at another session. 

The annual election was on January 4, and 
resulted in James I. Brooks once more hav- 
ing the position of president. The other 
ofificers were as follows: First vice-presi- 
dent, Chas. W. Thyng ; second vice-presi- 
dent, ^^^ W. Sprague ; third vice-president, 
Harrv O. Davis; fourth vice-president, .Asa 
Pritchard : treasurer, Geo. M. Davis ; secre- 
tary, F'rank E. Morrison ; directors, Dan.iel 
Paine, L. Fred Sanborn, W. W. Sprague. A. 
H. D. French, Chas. W. Thyno-. W. A. Rice, 
Chas. M. Lockwood, Knapp Forshner, Geo. 
A. Law, Harry W. Litchfield. 

On Marcli 2Q, was completed all arrange- 
ments with G. A. Graves as to terms for the 
lease of Combination Park for the ensuing 
year, and the lease was signed bv the club. 

There was a mix-up in getting the difl^er- 
ent driving clubs together for another 
series of interclub meets, it having been 
found that the Lynn and Ouantiapowitt 
(riubs had dropped out and the Metropolitan 
Club would not consider racing at all. if 
hopples were to be used. The club then 
voted to get into commmiication with the 
Dorchester Club, with the object of arrang- 



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65 



ing dates during the season for an interclub 
meet. This was later done, and a couple of 
very excellent meetings were decided. 

On Thanksgiving night was held the an- 
nual dance and whist party, a large number 
of members anrl their wives and guests be- 
ing present. The affair was such a success 
that it was then decided to hold another the 
next February. 

While there were no prizes ofifered for the 
season, yet the records were kept the same 
as though silver cups were u]) for trophies. 
In one or two instances silver cups were of- 
fered for handicap races and on single 
events, but nothing for the season's races. 
At the conclusion of the Summer matinees, 
the racing committee found the following 
was the standing of the horses : 

Trotters 
Fastest lieat — L. Fred Sanborn's Fred C. — i :o6 3-4. 
Fastest heat in seven races — James Hennessey's 

Leach Girl — i :og. 

First point — F. H. Odams' Lady Almont — 95. 

Second point — H. J. Foster's Virginia Dare — 92. 

Third point — C. E. Twombly's Doctor — 86. 

Fourth point — J. R. Sterling's Dixie — 8s. 

Fifth point— A. H. French's Phyllis F.— 77. 

Pacers 

Fa<;tp.;t Kent ' '^^'^°''"'= Coyle's Ella Hal— 1:05 
fastest Heatj^y ^ Sprague's Outcast— i 105 

Fastest heat in seven races — F. Morrison's Decima 

Deane — i :o7. 
First point — J. Brown's Independence — 80. 
Second point — P. Malanson's Teddy K. — 57. 
Third point — Roger Hagerty's Mamie H. — 54. 
Fourth point — A, J. Carpenter's The Kid — 35. 

Note. — C. R. Forshner drove in sixty races of 133 
heats, winning twenty races and forty-two heats. 
A. H. D. French drove in thirty-five races of 
eighty-six heats, winning twelve races and twenty- 
nine heats. 



SEASON OF 1912 



On January 3 was held the annual election, 
and qtiite a change was noticeable in the 
selection of the officials for the ensuing year. 
James I. Brooks, complaining that the club 
took much of his time from his business, 
would not run again for president, and the 
same was true in the instance of Frank E. 
Morrison, who. had been the secretary ever 
since the club was instituted. The members 
of the club chose George A. Law, a promi- 
nent citizen of Arlington, for the presidency, 
while C. E. Twombly, who had always don", 
much for the welfare of the club, was select- 
ed for the position of secretary. The com- 
plete result of the election follows : 

President, Geo. A. Law ; first vice-presi- 
dent. Dr. W. H. Hitchings ; second vice- 
president, Chas. R. Forshner ; third vice- 
president, H. O. Davis: fourth vice-presi- 
dent, Fred Pirown ; secretary, C. E. Twom- 



bly ; treasurer, Geo. M. Davis; directors, C. 
M. Lockwood, Dr. W. H. Hitchings, John 
Stackpole. Chas. Thyng, W. W. Spraguc, 
Chas. R. Forshner, C. M. Marinoni, Geo. N. 
Coyle, A. L. Baker, H. O. Davis. 

President Law took the chair immediately 
upon bis election and the new administra- 




GEORGE A. LAW 
President 1912-13-14 

tion's first act was passing a vote of thanks 
to Messrs. Brooks and Morrison for their 
energetic lalior in behalf of the organization 
m the years they had so faithfully served in 
their official capacities. 

The annual banquet was held on February 
20, at the Ouincv House, there being 125 
present. Many of the after-dinner speakers 
were in favor of holding a number of inter- 
club meets during the season, even more 
than had been the case in previous years. It 
was the general idea, too, that Combination 
Park should be leased, and several of the 
inembers thought that action should be 
taken, in a more forcible manner, toward 
having the State begin work on the proposed 
speedway. The usual entertainment of 
music and vaudeville was rendered and all 
voted that the evening had been a very 
pleasant one. 

On the 27th. the club kept up its round of 
merry-making by indulging in a whist party 
and dance, which was greatly enjoyed. In 
fact, so much so, that it was decided to hold 
public whist parties at the clubroom every 
Saturday evening, although, for the evening 
of April 4, Newcomb Hall, in Somerville, 



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was engaged for the whist playing and danc- 
ing. 

On April iq, the club opened its racing- 
season with an interclnb meet with the 
Metropolitans. This was only the beginning 
of what proved to be an active season on the 
turf, as, during the Summer, the Fellsways 
had contests with Dorchester and Quan- 
napowitt, meeting each of these clubs at least 
twice. 

Terms having been agreed upon, Combina- 
tion Park was once more leased for the sea- 
son by the club, and all papers signed and 
passed on April 3. 

C. M. Marinoni, thinking that it was a 
good plan to have something up of value in 
the style of an emblem, to keep for the sake of 
memory and associations, donated an elegant 
silver cup to be awarded the trotter winning 
the most heats during the season. 

The Fellsway horses having shown, in 
many instances, so much speed early in the 
.season, several of the members got chips on 
their shoulders, which finally ended in issuing 
a defi that the Fellsway Club would meet any 
other club in Greater Boston, each to pick 
I heir best trotter and fastest pacer, and the 
match or matches to determine the champion- 
ship club for the year. This challenge was 
sent to each and every club. 

Unfortunately, however, none of the clubs 
appeared to realize that they would be any 
gainer in having such a race, so the event 
never took place, and the incident is used only 
to prove the gameness of the men owning 
horses in the Fellsway Club, they never being 
afraid to go out to tackle any horse. A defeat 
was only taken in the best of good graces. 

As had been the case in the past number of 
seasons, Charles R. Forshner was the leading 
driver for the year, he having taken the word 
in sixty-one races, of which he won twenty- 
four, was twenty-four times second, nine 
time third, and came fourth in four races. 



SEASON OF 1913 



The annual election was held on New 
Year's night, and, with the counting of the 
ballots, it was found the following were 
elected for the ensuing year: President, Geo. 
A. Law ; first vice-president, Dr. W. H. 
Hitchings ; second vice-president, G. M. Mar- 
inoni ; third vice-president, H. J. Foster ; 
fourth vice-president, W. A. Smith; secretary, 
C. E. Twombly; treasurer, Geo. M. Davis; di- 
rectors, G. AI. Alarinoni, Chas. R. Forshner, 
Chas. M. Lockvvood, O. E. Linscott, John 
Stockpole, H. A. Pero, C. E. Twombly, Geo. 
N. Coyle, Chas. Thyng, L. H. Taylor. 



On January 7, at the Quincy House, was 
held tlie annual banquet, with the usual good 
time, after-dinner speaking, etc., the affair, as 
usual, bringing members and guests together 
on a friendly footing that insured the cement- 
ing of friendship and btirying of any hatchets 
that had been created in the speed contests of 
the previous months. 

At the meeting, held on January 8, it was 
the voice of the members that the future wel- 
fare of the club would be benefited greatly 
were cups and other trophies to be given at 
the end of the racing season. 

In response to this appeal, there was a gen- 
erous donation of prizes, the most prominent 
of which were President Law offering a sil- 
ver cup for the trotter winning the most 
heats ; Secretary Twombly, a silver cup for 
the pacer winning the fastest heat ; G. M. 
Marinoni, a silver cup for the trotter win- 
ning the fastest heat; H. S. Campbell, twenty- 
five bushels of oats for pacer winning the 
most heats; Charles Lockwood, $10 in gold 
for the trotter winning the highest num- 
ber of points; O. E. Linscott. $10 in gold 
for the pacer winning the highest number 
of points ; E. W". Pike, a blanket for the 
trotter winning the second highest number of 
points ; Dr. Harris, a horse suit for the pacer 
winning the second highest number of points; 
the Fellsway Driving Club, $5 in gold for the 
trotter winning the third highest number of 
points ; the Ladies' Auxiliary, $5 in gold for 
the pacer winning the third highest number 
of points. President Law then again came to 
the front with the offer of a gentleman's 
sweater for the trotter winning the fourth 
highest number of points ; Charles R. Forsh- 
ner donated $5 worth of horse shoeing for the 
pacer winning the fourth highest number of 
points, and the Boston Badge Co. donated six 
beautiful ribbons for awards. 

The annual ladies' night ball was held on 
April 30, and was successful, the club being 
benefited quite materially in a financial way. 

It was decided to lease Combination Park 
again, and the papers were passed on March 
26. At the same time arrangements were en- 
tered into for racing with the Dorchester 
Club, and invitations extended to other of the 
local driving clubs to meet the Fellsway at 
the Medford track. The first interclub meet 
with the Dorchesters came on May 30. By 
motion of the club, it was made compulsory 
that all the members in the events be com- 
pelled to wear the club colors, brown silk 
caps and white suits, and, when necessary, the 
club to furnish them. 

The second grand ball and whist party of 
the club took place in Newcomb Hall, on De- 



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cember 30, and there was a large gathering of 
the members and invited friends, and it was 
fully as successful as any that had previously 
been held. 

In the matinee season, there was great in- 
terest manifested in the series of races be- 
tween A. T. Wheelock's pacer, Charley King, 
of the Dorchester Club, and E. R. Whitman's 
pacing gelding, Joe K., representing the Fells- 
way Club. The most of these matches were 
half-mile heats, although Joe K. headed the 
summary over his rival at the mile distance. 
The particularly sensational clash was at the 
interclub meeting between the Dorchester and 
Fellsway Clubs on June 17, when the former 
organization won the rubber meet by si.xty-one 
points to Fellsway's forty-eight, and Charley 
King had to turn the track in i :o4 to defeat 
Joe K., by a narrow margin. This was the 
fastest heat by a pacer that year over a half- 
mile track in Greater Boston. The prize win- 
ners for 1913 follow: 

Trotters 

Cup for fastest heat — H. J. Foster's J. C. L., i :o8 1-2. 
Cup for most heats — W. J. Forsyth's Billy C. 
First point prize ($10) — C. E. Twombly's Doctor. 
Second point prize (blanket) — G. Horsman's Ed 

King. 
Third point prize ($S) — E. A. Ware's Chubby Boy. 
Fourth point prize (sweater) — L. H. Taylor's Prince 

Henry. 
Ribbon specials — James Hennessey's Luther Moko; 

B. W. Pike's Baratan; H. S. Campbell's P in 

Pom. 

Pacers 

Cup for fastest heat j C. M. Marinoni's Billy Baggs. 

I :07 1-2 / D. T. Dever's Big Tramp. 

Prize for most heats (25 bushels of oats) — O. E. 

Linscott's Lady Belle. 
First point prize ($10) — .\. Carpenter's The Kid. 
Second point prize (horse suit) — C. R. Forshner's 

Billy Bingen. 
Third point prize ($5) — C. A. Law's Fellsway Boy. 
Fourth point prize (horse shoeing) — J. F. Starling's 

W. R. E. T. 
Ribbon specials — L. J. Wood's John W. ; J. F, Miles' 

Ben Barney; A. G. Nichols' Willoughby. 

A sad happening to the members of the 
club was the death of William Garland, of 
Somerville, one of the charter members of 
the club, and whose ever cheerful and optim- 
istic disposition had done much to bring the 
club to its flourishing condition. Resolutions 
of condolence were extended to his near rela- 
tives. The breach made in the club by his 
loss was deemed irreparable. 



SEASON OF 1914 



The annual election took place on January 
7, George A. Law being once more honored 



with the unanimous vote of the club. The 
complete result of the election follows : Presi- 
dent, G. A. Law; first vice-president, Dr. 
Hitchings ; second vice-president, G. M. Mari- 
noni ; third vice-president, Jas. Hennessey ; 
fourth vice-president, C. M. Lockwood ; treas- 
urer, G. M. Davis; secretary, C. E. Twom- 
bly ; directors, John Stackpole, Chas. Forsh- 
ner, Geo. L. Davis, C. M. Marinoni, Chas. L. 
Ellis, A. J. Carpenter, Geo. A. Law, C. M. 
Lockwood, C. E. Twombly, O. E. Linscott. 

The annual banquet, held at the Quincy 
House, was up to the high standard always 
set by the club, and, according to the expres- 
sions of the horsemen, the future of matinee 
racing was very bright. President Law ex- 
tended a welcome to the members and invited 
guests, and asserted that the matinee sport 
would be obliged to go to racing mile heats, 
in place of the half-mile affairs, as the public 
was apparently much more interested in horses 
going the full distance. 

President G. Pray Smith, of the Metropoli- 
tan, opened his after-dinner address by a com- 
pliment to the horsemen in being the most 
honorable in business matters, and that he 
could not call to mind any time the horsemen 
had resorted to crookedness, if perchance one 
fellow member would get the worst of it. He 
was delighted that the driving clubs were 
working shoulder to shoulder for the good of 
racing. He said that the horse had done vast- 
ly more to develop this country than is usu- 
ally believed. He had hopes that eventually 
the "Mets" and Fellsway Clttb would merge 
into one driving club, that would have no su- 
perior in the entire country. 

President R. G. Crosby, of the Dorchesters, 
said that it was the hope of his club to have, 
in the near future, an adequate stable for the 
accommodation of visiting members and horses 
at the Franklin Field Speedway. 

President C. H. Playdon, of the Quanna- 
powitt Club, urged the driving clubs to be- 
come interested in the building of good roads, 
that being the crying necessity of the present 
era. As it is today, the majority of the state 
roads are made entirely for the use of auto- 
mobiles, and there should be a portion on each 
side, with suitable footing for the driving of 
the light harness horse. It would also prove 
a matter of greater safety for those who en- 
joy driving, instead of motoring, as the auto- 
mobiles would have the entire middle of the 
road for their use, and the teams would keep 
to each side. 

It was voted, on February 25, to lease Com- 
bination Park for the season of 1914, and ar- 
rangements were completed for the signing of 
the lease. 



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The matinee season opened on April 20 
with a rush, all of the classes receiving a lib- 
eral list of entries. The free-for-all was par- 
ticularly well filled with fast racing material, 
the following taking the word : Ruth D.. Miss 
Adbell. Ethel S.. Manila Boy and Robert 
Kernan. The event was won by J. O. Reay's 
Ruth D., in straight heats, in the fast time 
of I :o5 1-4 and 1 ;o6. which, for so earlv in 
the season, was considered remarkable. Ethel 
S. was second to the winner the first heat, 
while Miss Adbell was beaten by Ruth D. 
the second heat by a close margin. 

There were several interclub meets held 
during the Summer, the club going to the 
Reading track in conflict with the Ouanna- 
powitts. and the Ouannapowitts returning the 
favor at Combination Park, and also there was 
a meeting with the Dorchester Club, at the 
club's home track. 

At the close of the racing season the follow- 
ing was found to be the standing of the club's 
horses in prizes won : 



Trotters 

First point prize — C. E. Twombly's Doctor — 53. 
Second point prize— E. .\. ^^■are■s Chubby Boy — 48. 
Third point prize — M. Leach's Baron G«->-nn — 34. 
Fourth point prize — G. Horsman's Ed King — 28. 
Fifth point prize — G. Reid's Xut Axwonhv— 15. 
Sixth point prize — \\'. J. Fors\-th's Billy C.— 14. 

Pacers 

First point prize — C. E. Twombly's Manila Boy — 64. 
Second point prize — A. J. Carpenter's Robert Ker- 

non — 59. 
Third point prize — G. .\. Law's Fanny M. — 49. 
Fourth point prize — L. J. Wood's John \V. — 47. 
Fifth point prize — B. La Croix's Little Dan — 44. 
Sixth point prize — O. E. Linscott's Lady Belle — 43. 
First prize for winning most heats-— G. A. Law's 

Fanny M. — 46. 
Second heat prize — C. E. Twombly's Manila Boy — 45 
Third heat prize — O. E. Linscott's Lady Belle — 38. 
Fourth heat prize — L. J. Wood's John W.— 38. 
Fifth heat prize — B. La CroLx's Little Dan— 36. 
First prize for most starts— C. E. Twomblv's Manila 

Boy— 19. 
Second prize for most starts — G. A. Law's Fannv 

M— 17. 




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Always in the Thick of the Racing Battle, Both in Cluh and Interclub Meets 

Owned bv G. A. Law 



Ladies' Auxiliary of the Fellsway 
Driving Club 




Top Row, reading from left to right:— Mrs. F. E. Morrison, Mrs. I,. H. Phelps, Mrs. 

O. E. Linscott, Mrs. A. B. Pritchard 

Lower Row:— Mrs. A. J. Carpenter, Secretary; Mrs. C. W. Thyng, Vice-President; 

Mrs. Agnes M. Cornwell, President; Mrs. C. R. Forshner, Treasurer 



IN the Summer of 1909 was organized 
the Ladies" Auxihary of the Fellsway 
Driving Club, and in numerous way.'' 
did it prove of vast importance in the 
advancement of the Fellsway Club. Al- 
most from the start the ladies added to the ma- 
terial benefit of the club by holding social 
functions, the revenue derived being used in 
securing comforts and articles of necessity re- 
quired by the driving club. 

The large flag that flouts from the flag-pole 
at Combination Park on race days was made 
by the Ladies' Auxiliary, while the present 
clubroom in Franklin Street was almost en- 
tirely the result of the auxiliary's work. 



Li raising the funds the auxiliary held 
dances, whist parties, luncheons and many odd 
little gatherings that would bring in the nifty 
penny. It has always been active, at the pres- 
ent time ( 1914) holding weekly meetings 
on Wednesday afternoons, in the Fellsway 
clubroom. The first list of officers of the aux- 
iliary was as follows : 

President, Mrs. J. W. Litchfield; vice- 
president, Mrs. T. S. McRae; treasurer, Mrs. 
F. S. ^TcKown ; secretary, Airs. Frank E. Mor- 
rison. 

The officials for 1914 were: President, Mrs. 
Agnes M. Cornwell; vice-president, Mrs. C. 
W. Thyng; treasurer, Mrs. C. R. Forshner; 
secretary. Mrs. A. J. Carpenter. 



Well Known Members of 
Fellsway Club 





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One of 13 Who'Organized the Club 



FRANK E. MORRISON 
Club's First Secretary 







E. R. WHITMAN 



C. M. LOCKWOOD 




DOCTOR 

Perhaps the Best Known Matinee Trotter in Greater Boston, He Having Raced for 

Nine Consecutive Seasons and a Constant Prize Winner. Owned 

and Driven by C. E. Twombly 




LADY BELLE 

A Popular Mare with the Patrons and Members of the Fellsway Club Matinees at 

Combination Park. Owned and Driven by O. E. Linscott 



Well Known Members of 
Fellsway Club 





BRADFORD R. COBB 



HUGH J. MORRISON 



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and Driven by G. L. Davis, Who is Seen at the Gelding's Head 



The 
Old Colony Driving Club 

1908 1914 



South Weymouth Track 




FREE-FOR-ALLERS ON THEIR WAY 




THE STABLES-READY FOR THE NEXT HEAT 



The Old Colony Driving Club 



THE Old Colony Driving Club, 
from the humble first member- 
ship of five, who, at that time, 
were members of the Dorchester 
Gentlemen's Driving Club and, 
residing on the South Shore, had to drive 
quite a distance from their homes to race on 
the Dorchester Speedway, has grown within 
the past three years to be one of the largest 
and most enthusiastic, as well as prosperous, 
driving clubs in New England. The club 
draws its membership from Quincy, Wey- 
mouth, Braintree, Whitman, Abington, Rock- 
land and Hingham. 

The racing ground of the club is at South 
Weymouth, directly in the center of this ter- 
ritory, and they have one of the best half-mile 
tracks, with spacious grandstands and sixty- 
two as fine horse stalls as there are in New 
England. All of these things have a great 
bearing on the success and prosperity of the 
club, coupled with the interesting races held 
every Saturday and holiday during the season, 
which begins April ig and ends November i. 
On holidays the club features extra attrac- 
tions and charges admission at the gate. On 
all other racing days admission is free. 

On a returning trip home from an annual 
election of the Dorchester Gentlemen's Driv- 
ing Club, one night in December of 1907, 
Harry C. Thayer, H. P. Hobart, W. H. Foss 
and George French, of South Braintree, with 
B. C. Wilder, of Hingham, talked over the 
matter of organizing a driving club for .the 
horsemen of the South Shore, and the leas- 
ing of the South Weymouth track. 

Meetings were held in the stable office of 
Harry Thayer, at 19 Stafford Street, South 
Braintree, where, around the hot stove during 
the cold Winter evenings, the Old Colony 
Driving Club was born with the five members 
mentioned above. 

After preliminary arrangements had been 
completed, a call was sent out to the horse 
owners in the several towns to meet at Mr. 
Thayer's stable office on January 24, 1908. 
In the meantime, each one of the five button- 
holed every horse owner he met and talked 
the proposition over in true advertising solici- 
tor's style. 

On the evening of the meeting, so well had 
the promoters done their work that the stable 
office was not large enough to accommodate 
the number gathered. So, after a few remarks 
from Mr. Thayer, who stated the object of 



the meeting, adjournment was taken to Odd 
Fellows' Hall, for the evening of January 31. 
In the meantime, their friends in the Dor- 
chester Gentlemen's Driving Club, not wish- 
ing to lose them as members, tried to influ- 
ence these five against the proposition by try- 
ing to convince them that the adventure was 
a foolish one and could not be made a success. 
Much of this reasoning was caused from 
the fact that some years previous there had 
been a club, called the South Shore Driving 
Club, which had leased the South Weymouth 
track to give horse races for purses and gate 
money. 

This club had put the name of driving 
clubs in bad with the horsemen of that vicin- 
ity. They had horses named as entered in 
their races who never appeared. They had 
classes advertised to start with ten and twelve 
horses, guaranteeing to the paying public in- 
teresting races with large fields of horses. 
These interesting races never took place; in 
fact, the horses advertised had never been en- 
tered. The public was fooled so many times 
that it became disgusted and refused to at- 
tend the races. 

But despite all this, Mr. Thayer and his 
associates felt that they could gain back the 
good opinion of the horsemen and racegoers 
of the South Shore by being careful of what- 
ever they might do. 

So on the evening of January 31, when 
the meeting was called to order in Odd Fel- 
lows' Hall, there were nearly fifty horse own- 
ers present. After the usual routine business 
necessary to organizing, there was a general 
discussion for and against the proposition, but 
the opposition was very small. 

The promoters at this point appreciated the 
fact that, if they were to pull the thing 
through to a success, they must carefully se- 
lect their otficials. So the following slate was 
made up and elected unanimously : 

President, Col. A. C. Drinkwater, one of 
the leading horse breeders of New England ; 
vice-president. Lot Lohnes ; secretary and 
treasurer, Theron L. Tirrell; directors, Geo. 
A. French, W. H. Foss, B. W. Shaw and 
Frank P. Fay ; racing committee, Harry C. 
Thayer, E. H. Waite, H. P. Hobart, Lot 
Lohnes, B. W. Shaw, W. F. Drinkwater, 
A. R. Hobart, Joseph A. Haley, C. S. Han- 
naford and John J. Hanley; membership com- 
mittee, Robert R. Stocker, James Ford, Jo- 
seph A. Haley; finance committee, J. Marcus 



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Arnold, H. Parker Hobart, J. W. Ford; 
house committee, John J. Hanley and F. A. 
Oliver. All were leading business men and 
residents of the several towns before men- 
tioned on the South Shore. 

After the election of officers and the ap- 
pointing of committees for the ensuing year, 
it was voted that tlie weeklv meetings of the 




COL. A. C. DRINKWATER 
President 1908 

club, which had been duly christened the Old 
Colony Driving Club, be held during the Win- 
ter in different halls, on account of the mem- 
bers being so widely scattered, some living as 
much as twelve to fifteen miles away. In 
holding these meetings at the hall in each 
town in the club's territory, there was sure 
to be a representative gathering from the 
place where the meeting was held, and. at the 
same time, all the members would eventually 
have a meeting of the horsemen in their own 
vicinity. 

In the Summer months it was decided that 
there would not be so many members to at- 
tend the meetings. Therefore, the essential 
matter before the club would be in having 
the race committee assemble weekly to match 
the horses in the races to be decided on Sat- 
urdays. Mr. Thayer kindly offered the use of 
his stable office for this purpose, and, it being 
central for the race committee, they accepted 
the use of it. 

It was also voted to lease from the Wey- 
mouth Agricultural and Industrial Society the 



half-mile track and entire plant at South 
Weymouth, for the use of the Old Colony 
Driving Club. 

Just as soon as the weather softened, at the 
end of Winter, work was begun on the plant 
in improving the stable, grandstand and the 
race track, so that at the opening, held on 
April 20, the 19th falling on Sunday, the 
plant had been so thoroughly renovated that 
an agreeable surprise awaited those present. 

\Vhile a number of the members of the new 
club were also affiliated with the Dorchester 
Gentlemen's Driving Club, yet it was, in 
their opinion, a wise move to prohibit the use 
of hopples in the matinees at the South ^^'ey- 
mouth track. 

The result of this action was immediately 
demonstrated in the number of trotters that 
started in the races in proportion to the pa- 
cers, the former outnumbering the side-wheel- 
ers at least three to two. When a lot of the 
men owning horses along the South Shore 
found that the racing was to be with horses 
not wearing the straps, they immediately 
joined the organization, bought a fast trotter 
or a free-legged pacer, and started in to have 
some fun. So it was that the Old Colony 
Club rapidly grew into distinction, even more 
so than its promoters dared to dream. 

There were eight events scheduled for the 
first day's racing of the new club, and while 
the afternoon was cold and rainy, yet all that 
had entered put in an appearance, while the 
grandstand was well filled with horse-loving 
residents of that vicinity. 

In the first event of the afternoon, one of 
the starters was the trotting gelding, Altro L., 
owned and driven by Harry C. Thayer. While 
he lost the race, yet he took the first heat in 
I :io 1-2, which placed a record for other trot- 
ters over the track to shoot at. It is a pe- 
culiar instance that of all the horses that raced 
that season for the club, Altro L. was, in the 
Fall of 1914, the only one left in the matinee 
events of the club. The summary of the first 
matinee follows : 

So. Weymouth, April 20. 1008 — ^Class A, trot. 

Willie John (Ford) 2 i i 

Altro L. (Thayer) i 2 2 

Hulman (Littlefield) 3 3 dr 

Time— I :io 1-2, i :ii, I :li. 

Class B, trot. 

India Panis (French) 2 I 1 

Willie J. (Cushman ) i 2 2 

Time— 1 ;I3, 1 :io 1-2, i :I3- 

Class C, trot. 

Lassie (Hannaford) 3 i i 

King Bruce ( Wilder) i 2 2 

Eagle Bell (Ford) 2 3 3 

Time— I :I7, 1 :I3 1-2, 1 -iS- 



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77 



Class D, trot. 

Patricia (Fay) i i 

Molly Pitcher (Reed ) 2 2 

Time — I :20, i .26. 
Class E, trot. 

Queen Lily (Waite) i i 

Billy Boy (Stocker) 2 2 

Time — i :-|o 1-2, i 141. 
Class F, trot or pace. 

Nina (Wilder) I i 

Katrina ( French ) 2 2 

Black Bess ( Baker ) 3 3 

Time — i :I7, 1 :i8. 
Class G, trot or pace. 

Yankee Girl ( Baker ) i i 

Mizoleta (Shaw) 2 2 

Sontie (Oliver) 3 3 

Time — i '.2g, i -.23. 
Class H. pace 

Cleio ( Soule ) 2 i i 

Scotch Oil ( F'ord ) i 2 2 

Time — i :I9 1-2, i ;I5, 1 -.17 1-2. 

During that season there were held over 
the South Weymouth track 21 regular mati- 
nees and three interclub meets, including the 
one held by the fair. In the same time, the 
racing members competed away from home 
with tlie Brockton Club, with Dorchester, and 
another interclub meet with Brockton during 
the Weymouth Fair. Not content with these, 
they visited Brockton, in October, for the 
final session away from home. 

In the interclub meet with Brockton, held 
June 27, Old Colony won by 40 points to ^J 
points for their rivals. On the first day of 
August, Brockton visited the Old Colony and 
were beaten, 55 points to 43 points. The 
meeting between the two clubs at the Wey- 
mouth Fair, September 24, resulted in Old 
Colony getting 23 points, to 18 for the Shoe 
City boys. The final session between the 
clubs, held at Brockton on October 17, was 
taken by Brockton, they scoring 53 points to 
Old Colony's 41. 

The Old Colony horses competed against 
Dorchester at Franklin Field Speedway on 
August 8, the result being in favor of the 
Dorchesters by the overwhelming score of 
J2 1-2 points to 17 1-2 points. This was the 
worst beating the South Shore representatives 
ever received. It being the first year of their 
career on the turf, it taught them many valu- 
able lessons in the art of interclub racing. 

On September 7 was the three-cornered 
interclub meet at the South Weymouth track, 
in which Dorchester scored 75 points, (Jld 
Colony _j3 points, and Brockton 25 points. 

During the season the trotting record was 
reduced to I :o7, the following being the way 
the record fell : May 9, India Panis stepped 
in 1:10; May 23, Willie John in 1:08 1-2; 
July 4, Altro L., in 1:08; September 12, 
Altro L. defeated Czarina in i 107 3-4 ; Sep- 



tember 26, Altro L. defeated Willie John in 
1:07. 

For the pacers. Winter quarters found the 
record placed at 1 105. The method of accom- 
plishing this is shown by the following : April 
20, Cleio started the pacing record by winning 
in I :i5; April 25, Czarina lowered it to i :io; 
May 23, Nina B. turned the track in 1:09; 
May 23, Czarina dropped the record to i 105. 

The race committee, after thoroughly going 
through the performances for the Summer, 
found the following were the winners of the 
season's trophies : 

PRIZE WINNERS 

Trotters 

Gold mounted whip for fastest average time — Harry 

C. Thayer's .\ltru L., i :io9-io. 
Blanket for greatest number of heats — D. F. Daley's 

Aquiline. 
Horse suit and knee pads for the greatest number 
of points— B. C. Wilder's Nina — 61 1-2. 
Pacers 
Cooler for fastest average time — J. F. Young's Ka- 

lanos — T :i2 1-8. 
Blanket and surcingle for greatest number of points 
— E. L. Soule's Cleio— 38- 



SEASON OF 1909 



At the annual election held in January, the 
following was the result: President, Lot 
Lohnes; vice-president, H. C. Thayer; secre- 
tary and treasurer, T. L. Tirrell; directors. 
Col. A. C. Drinkwater, Geo. A. French, J. B. 
Reed, B. C. Wilder; racing committee, E. H. 
Waite, chairman; A. R. Hobart, H. P. Ho- 
bart, J. F. Young, G. A. French, B. W. Shaw, 
M. F. Drinkwater, Jas. Ford, D. F. Daley, 
D. W. Hart ; membership committee, A. S. 
Marsh, O. W. Watson, S. A. Litchfield; 
finance committee. J. B. Reed, B. C. Wilder 
and R. D. Stetson ; house committee, A. F. 
Clapp, -Max Schraut and Nat'l Ells; auditing 
committee, C. C. Pendergast, H. C. Thayer 
and T- F. Young; entertainment committee, 
J. F." Young, H. C. Thayer, H. P. Hobart, 
J. A. Haley and C. F. Cavanagh. 

The first annual banquet was held in 
February, and was a pronounced success, 
the dinner, entertainment and after-dinner 
speeches bringing forth praise from all. 

With Lot Lohnes, the president, and a lot 
of good men, hard workers, on the committees, 
the season proved a very successful one on 
the track. The membership grew very rapidly 
and the attendance on holidays and field days 
of the club was very creditable indeed. 

On May 31 was held an interclub meet with 
Dorchester and, on July 5, the local club had 
a session with the Brockton horsemen. Both 
of these meets aroused a great deal of interest. 



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A number of prizes were given which cre- 
ated an unusual amount of rivalry between the 
members. At the conclusion of the season's 
matinees, it was found that the following had 
captured the trophies. 

PRIZE WINNERS 
Trotters 

Director's cup (value $25) for winner of most races 
— B. C. Wilder's Nina. 

Cup (value $25) for fastest average time— T. A. 
Cushman's Willie J. 

Cup (value $15) for winner of most points that 
never before started in club's races — J. J. Buck- 
ley's Duffy's Malt. 

Cup (value $lo) for the fastest time in winning 
races — M. F. Drinkwater's Winaka. 

Sonoma Girl harness (value $50) for winner of 
most points — B. C. Wilder's King Bruce. 

Bristilian service fee (value $25) for starting and 
finishing in greatest number of races — S. A. Litch- 
field's Starling. 

Racing bridle (value $10) for winner of most heats 
— D. Frank Daley's Aquiline. 

Turkey (value $6) for winner of greatest number of 
races, including matches — B. C. Wilder's King 
Bruce. 

Blue ribbon winners — A. A. Davenport's Lady Samp- 
son, A. R. Hobart's Miss Panis. A. S. Marsh's 
Campwood. 

Pacers 
Racing committee cup (value $50) for winner of 

most points — E. H. Clapp's Dolly Lincoln. 
Cup (value $25) for fastest average time — Lot 

Lohnes' Sunderland King. 
Cup (value $15) for winner of most points that 

never before started in club's races — E. F. Maher's 

Louise D. 
Cup (value $10) for the fastest time in winning 

races — H. P. Hobart's Nina B. 
Carriage robes (value $25) for winner of most 

races — J. Cummings' Fire Bug. 
Blue ribbon winners — C. E. McKenzie's Kathleen, 

D. F. Bates' Oswego Boy, Lot Lohnes' Maud Mil- 
ler. 



SEASON OF 1910 



1 he following shows the officers elected at 
the annual meeting: President, B. C. Wilder; 
vice-president, D. Frank Daley; secretary and 
treasurer, T. L. Tirrell; directors. Lot Lohnes, 
A. S. Marsh, G. A. French, S. A. Litchfield; 
racing committee, J. F. Young, H. Miller, 
E. H. Waite, H. C. Thayer, G. A. French, 
A. R. Hobart, J. W. Ford, T. A. Cushman, 
D. F. Daley and Jas. Cummings ; member- 
ship committee, A. S. Marsh, S. A. Litchfield 
and Wm. Gilligan; finance committee, D. W. 
Hart, M. C. Sproul and E. H. Waite; house 
committee. Max Schraut, D. F. Daley, A. S. 
Marsh. 

Matters were kept humming during the ad- 
ministration of B. C. Wilder, both on the 
track, where the matinee and interclub events 
brought forth big fields of starters and great 
enthusiasm from both the members and the 



spectators, and at the weekly meetings during 
the Winter, where refreshments were served 
and after-luncheon speaking was indulged. 
In every way the club prospered and kept 
branching _ out. The annual banquet brought 
out the best there was in the club. 

In awarding the prizes for the season, it 
was found that Harry Thayer's Altro L. was 
the king of trotters, and J. W. Linnehan's 
Budweiser had put it over the pacers. For 
the point prizes, S. A. Litchfield's Starling 
made the most for the trotters, and George 
Eieal's '^'oung Bayard got the highest count 
for the pacers. 

PRIZE WINNERS 

Trotters 
Time cup — H. C. Thayer's Altro L. 
Point cup — S. A. Litchfield's Starling. 

Pacers 
Time cup — J. W. Linnehan's Budweiser. 
Point cup — George Beal's Young Bayard. 

Note. — ^In 1910 were held 234 races with 573 heats, 
racing 398 trotters and 278 pacers. 



SEASON OF 1911 



The annual election resulted as follows: 
President, D. Frank Daley ; vice-president, 
Jas. F. Young; secretary and treasurer, L. L. 
Kennedy; directors, B. C. Wilder, T. L. Tir- 
rell, A. R. Hobart and S. A. Litchfield; rac- 
ing committee, Jas. F. Young, chairman, E. H. 
Waite, H. C. Thayer, H. P. Miller, A. R. 
Hobart, H. P. Hobart, A. S. Marsh, Geo. 
Beal, Jas. Cummings and B. C. Wilder; 
house committee, E. H. Waite, A. R. Hobart, 
A. S. Marsh. 

Matters were kept humming in both a so- 
cial way and on the track during the year, 
there being interclub meets with the nearby 
driving clubs, and each Saturday and holiday 
there was the regular matinee held at the 
South Weymouth track. In February was 
the annual banquet. 

There was a lot of rivalry during the Sum- 
mer for the valuable cups offered for the sea- 
son, and when it came to sifting out the vic- 
tors, it was found the following were the 
fortunate ones. 

PRIZE WINNERS 
Trotters 
Time cup— J. W. Ford's Willie John. 
Point cup- 



-,H. C. Thaver's Altro L. 



Pacers 
Time cup — E. F. Mahar's Onward March. 
Point cup — J. F. HoUis' Thistle. 

Note. — ^In 191 1 were held 234 races with 553 heats, 
racing 375 trotters and 291 pacers. 



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SEASON OF 1912 



At the annual election, the following were 
placed in office for the ensuing year : Presi- 
dent, Jas. F. Young ; vice-president, S. A. 
Litchfield ; secretary and treasurer, L. L. 
Kennedy ; directors, B. C. Wilder, E. H. 
Waite, b, Frank Daley, H. P. Hobart ; racing 
committee, D. Frank Daley, chairman, J. W. 




JA.MK.S F. YOUNG 
President 1912 

Ford, G. A. French, J. T. Buckley, W. H. 
Gilligan, A. R. Hobart, H. P. Miller, Thos. 
MacKenzie, C. H. Richards, S. B. Totman. 

In the selection of James F. Young for 
president in 191 2, the members of the Old 
Colony Driving Club thoroughly believed in 
recognizing a hard worker in the interests of 
the organization. 

President Young had been identified with 
the racing committee from the inception of 
the club. In 1909 he worked under Chairman 
E. H. Waite. The following year he accepted 
the office of chairman of that committee, 
which he held through 191 1. 

Any person familiar with the duties of 
chairman of the racing committee realizes the 
difficulty of fulfilling the position to the sat- 
isfaction of the members racing horses. Pres- 
ident Young had accomplished this in a way 
that was almost miraculous. Far from being 
unpopular, he was really liked best by the 
men who had raced under him. Both as a 
handicapper and as the starting judge, he had 
become vastly more appreciated in their es- 



timation, his gijod judgment and diplomacy 
having made him a lot of friends. 

It was thus easy to see that the season of 
1912 was destined to be one of the most pros- 
perous in the history of the Old Colony Driv- 
ing Club. President Young not only kept 
matters humming on the track, but in a social 
way. 

That Winter was held in Odd Fellows' 
Hall, Quincy, a banquet at which were in at- 
tendance the presidents and leading officials 
of other clubs in Greater Boston and Brock- 
ton. It was one of the real good times that so 
much help to cement into friendship the mem- 
bers of the club with those belonging to other 
driving clubs. 

It was found at the close of the season that 
the following were successful in winning the 
trophies. 

PRIZE WINNERS 
Trotters 
Time cup — J. W. Ford's Willie John. 
Point cup — T. A. Cushman's Willie J. 

Pacers 
Time cup— J. B. Reed's Edith R. 
Point cup — I. R. Anderson's Benjamin. 

Note. — In 1912 were held 195 races with 472 heats, 
racing 341 trotters and 216 pacers. 



SEASON OF 1913 



Following are the officials that were elected 
for the ensuing year: President, Harry C. 
Thayer ; vice-president, Henry P. Miller ; sec- 
retary and treasurer, M. C. Sproul ; directors, 
John F. Hollis, Thos. Green, H. P. Hobart 
and J. F. Young; breeding committee. Lot 
Lohnes, M. F. Drinkwater, S. A. Litchfield; 
racing committee, J. F. Young, chairman, 
H. P. Miller, H. P. Hobart, E. H. Waite, 
A. R. Hobart, Lot Lohnes, B. C. Wilder, 

D. F. Daley, Thos. Green and J. W. Ford; 
membership committee, A. R. Hobart, E. C. 
Wilcox, and D. F. Daley; finance committee, 

E. H. Waite, Geo. Beal and C. F. Cavanaugh ; 
house committee, H. P. Hobart, C. H. Rich- 
ards and C. E. MacKenzie ; auditing commit- 
tee, R. D. Stetson, B. C. Wilder and T. A 
Cushman. 

It had always been with rare foresight that 
the members of the club selected their leading 
officials. This was manifest by the electing 
of Harry C. Thayer as the chief executive of 
the club. President Thayer was one of the 
five that instituted the Old Colony Driving 
Club, and, from that very opening night to 
the present time, his heart and soul have been 
in the prosperity of the organization which he 
helped to found. 

President Thaver not onlv used his influ- 



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ence in every way in having the club grow 
stronger in numbers and finance, but he used 
his check book in increasing the quahty of the 
horses in the matinees. One venture of his 
was the purchase of the trotting mare, Kath- 
erine R., 2:11 3-4, from Trainer Harry Jones, 
Rushville. Ind. This naturally led other in- 




HARRY C. THAYER 
President 1913 

fluential members of the chil) to dig into their 
pockets for racing material that would be ca- 
pable of giving President Thayer's new pur- 
chase a real horse race. 

In the Winter was held another banquet in 
Ouincy, and the after-dinner speaking was a 
revelation to many present. G. Pray Smith, 
of the Metropolitan Club, expiated on the 
good accomplished by any driving club that 
prohibited the use of the hopples, and said 
that during the coming season there would be 
interclub meetings between the Metropolitan 
and the Old Colony, as the only two clubs in 
Greater Boston that barred the straps. 

There was a big delegation present from 
the Dorchester Club, the feelings between the 
Old Colony and that club always having been 
of the very best. Somehow the remarks about 
the hopples did not sit very easily on their 
nerves, and, among others, President R. G. 



Crosby spoke right out in the meeting and 
said that his club, the Dorchesters, was will- 
ing to meet any and all clubs in Greater Bos- 
ton, and it was the sentiment of its members 
that they were fully as strong in racing ma- 
terial as any of the driving clubs. He, further- 
more, said that the Dorchesters were not 
bound down to using hopples on their horses, 
but they did so because in the beginning it 
was popular with all horsemen to use the 
straps on pacers when the occasion required. 
In this way many members of the Dor- 
chester Club had purchased pacers that, in 
order to race their best, had to wear hopples, 
and it would be a big injustice to these mem- 
bers in preventing their use. It was wholly 
on account of justice that the club still con- 
tinued upholding the hopples. 

President Thayer gave a very interesting 
talk, saying that he hoped that the coming 
months would see a lot of friendly rivalry be- 
tween the driving clubs, and that the Old Col- 
ony Club intended being a participant in many 
of the interclub events. He knew the senti- 
ment of the club was favorable to going out 
and meeting other clubs, and it was his opin- 
ion that w'hen it came to interclub racing, the 
Old Colony was fully as well fortified in fast 
trotters and fast pacers as any club in not 
only Greater Boston, but in New England. In 
the interclub meets of 19 10, the Metropolitan 
had won the prize cup, the emblem of the 
championship of New England. He hoped 
that ere the season of 1913 had closed, the 
Old Colony and the Metropolitan would have 
met, and the supremacy of the two organiza- 
tions be firmly decided. 

Among other speakers were Col. A. C. 
Drinkwater, first-president of the Old Colony 
and the breeder of the noted stallion, Cochato 
(3), 2:11 1-2; S. Walter Wales, past presi- 
dent of the Dorchesters; Harry C. Briggs, 
past president of the Brockton Club; Fred 
Beachey, publisher of the American Horse 
Breeder ; J. O. Reay, the owner of many valu- 
able racing horses in the present and past, 
and Edward E. Cogswell. 

\\'ith the counting up of the awards at the 
close of the season, it was found that Presi- 
dent Thayer had bought wisely in securing 
Katherine R., as she had not only captured 
the point prize, but on Atigust 16, in a race 
against Van Dyke, she equaled the track rec- 
ord of I :o~. which Altro L. had held for five 
years. 

The pacers, too, had demonstrated a lot of 
speed, as on two occasions during the season 
the record had been lowered. On June 28, 
Miss \\'inifred, the property of H. W. 
Waite, and driven by John Daley, won the 



The DrivingXlubs of Greater Boston 



race, and paced one of her heats in i :o4, thus 
chopping off a whole second from the previ- 
ous pacing record of the course, made by 
Czarina in 1908. Benjamin, on August 16, 
tied the record of i 104 by going to beat i :q^. 
Henjamin was the property of E. L. Edes, and 
was driven in his successful eft"ort by I. R. 
Anderson. 

Among the new trotters that raced in the 
matinees was Kaldar, purchased by S, B. 
Totman. and noted as one of the winners in 
the American Trotting Derby of 1909. The 
cups for the season were awarded as follows ; 

PRIZE WINNERS 
Trotters 
Time cup — S. B. Totmaii's Kaldar. 
Point cup — H. C. Thayer's Katlierine R. 

Pacers 
Time cup — I. R. Anderson's Benjamin, 
Point cup — C. E. MacKenzie's Kathleen. 

Note — In 1913 were held 194 races with 470 heats, 
racing ;}3() trotters and 215 pacers. 



brilliantly than the others was the winning of 
Benjamin in the fast pacing class over Sister 
Patch, the pacing queen of the Dorchester 
Club, the gelding turning the track in i :o8 
and I tor. 



SEASON OF 1914 



The annual election resulted as follows; 
President, Henry P. Aliller; vice-president. 
Rector D. Stetson ; secretary and treasurer, 
M. C. Sproul ; directors, D. F. Daley, T. H. 
Green, J. F. 'Young, S." B. Totman. 

In February was held the annual banquet, 
in Fogg's Opera House, South Weymouth, 
and among the invited guests was a liberal 
representation from the Dorchester Club. In 
the after-dinner speaking, plans were pro- 
posed which eventuated in the holding of the 
interclub meets that were decided later in the 
season. 

President Miller spoke very enthusiastically 
over the continued success of the Old Colony 
Club in its matinees keeping up to the stand- 
ard. Though in many of the older clubs of 
Greater Boston, there had been a decided fall- 
ing off in the number of starters, the racing 
members of the Old Colony continued to stick 
by the ship in good style, with the result that 
each Saturday there was a first-class racing 
card decided. It was President Miller's idea 
that the coming season should find the club's 
horses meeting those of Dorchester, and, if 
possible, he would like to see a series of meet- 
ings held with the Metropolitan Driving Club. 

The first contest between the Dorchesters 
and Old Colony took place at South Wey- 
mouth on July 4. There were fourteen classes 
on the card, and the final result was in doubt 
until the very last race had been decided, Old 
Colony only winning by the close margin of 
45 points to 43 for their rivals. 

While all of the events were particularly 
interesting, yet the one that showed up more 




HENRY P. MILLER 
President 1914 

Charley King, owned by A. T. Wheelock, of 
the Dorchesters, who had for so many seasons 
been the bearcat for all comers, was pitted 
against Edith R,, of the Old Colony, the other 
starter being Teddy Bingen, who also rep- 
resented the Dorchesters. Charley King was 
as reliable as always, and reeled oft' the event 
in I :o7 3-4 and 1 107 1-4. 

Another pacer that covered himself with 
credit was Chato, owned and driven by Fred 
H. Bellows, who represented the Dorchesters, 
though a member of both of the clubs. Chato 
defeated Pauline and Redondale, both of the 
Old Colony, stepping his heats in i -.lo 1-2 
and I :o8 1-2, and clearly demonstrated to 
those who saw him perform the brilliant pro- 
fessional career in store for him later in the 
season. 

In the trotting events, the fastest ])erform- 
ers were Jack Bingen, owned by President 
R. G. Crosby, of the Dorchesters, and driven 
by Fred Eldredge ; Kaldar, entered by S. B. 
Totman of the Old Colony ; Catherine C, 
owned and driven by Ezra Waite of the same 
club, and Silence, with Hollis Gallup, the vet- 
eran of the Dorchesters, in the sulky. These 
horses were in Class B, and the event was, de- 
cided in the order named. Kaldar won the 
first heat in i 109 3-4, but afterwards Jack 
Bingen was first in i 109 and i 109 3-4. 



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Another split-heat race was that taken by 
The Guy, of the Old Colony, who won the 
second and third heats in i :i3 1-4 and i :i3, 
after losing the first heat to George M., owned 
and driven by O. C. Charles of the Dorches- 
ters. in i :i6. Mary Mc, owned and driven 
by M. McDermott of the Dorchesters, proved 
quite a factor in the final heat, The Guy only 
beating her by a neck, in the fastest time of 
the race. 

With the excitement at fever pitch on ac- 
count of the two clubs being nearly together 
in points at this late stage of the racing card, 
Class N, for pacers, kept everybody on tiptoe 
until the decision was rendered. Red Bird 
won for Old Colony in three heats. Orange 
Girl taking the first trip in 1:14, and then 
the former catching the judge's eye in 
I :i2 1-2 and i :ii 1-2. 

The second interclub meet held betweei-^he 
Dorchesters and Old Colony was on Labor 
Day, September 7, at the South Weymouth 
track, and resulted in a much easier victory 
for the Old Colony than the one of July 4, 
the visiting club only getting 35 points", while 
the home boys were gathering a cluster of 
58 points. 

In the fast pacing class, the local flyer. 
Miss Vassar, owned by James F. Young and 
driven by Millard Drinkwater, defeated Ben- 
jamin in I :o6 1-4 and i :o6 1-2, which was 
quite a surprise to many of the admirers of 
the latter. 

In Class B pacing, Sister Patch, of the 
Dorchesters, was pitted against Edith R., of 
the Old Colony, while Fred Eldredge, of the 
Dorchesters, was the other starter with joe 
King. Edith R. landed the first heat in i -06, 
thus beating the fastest time made by the 
free-for-allers. Sister Patch then came to the 
front, winning in i -.oy and i :o8 1-2. 

Trixie S., that had been purchased earlier 
in the season by R. D. Stetson of the Old 
Colony, was in the event against Color Bearer 
and Harry Direct, both of the Dorchesters, 
while Teddy Muscovite was the other starter 
and represented the home club. Trixie S. 
made short work of winning, and her time 
was I :o9 3-4 and i :i2. 

For the trotters, in the feature event was 
President Crosby's Jack Bingen, of the Dor- 
chesters. Katherine R., Harry C. Thayer's 
entry for the Old Colony, and Higgins, who 
also represented the local club, while Hollis 
Gallup came over from Dorchester with Si- 
lence. Jack Bingen was not to be denied the 
victory, he stejjping the circle in i :o8 3-4 and 
I :o9. 

An event not in the list of interclub races 
was between Kaldar and Miss Lake, the lat- 



ter c>wned by H. C. Thayer, the distance be- 
ing mile heats. The former headed the sum- 
mary in 2:22 1-4 for the fastest heat. Though 
defeated. Miss Lake showed great improve- 
ment ; in fact, this mare had come very fast 
in the last year of her handling and critics 
predicted that, before her retirement from 
racing, she would make a creditable record. 

Not since the inception of the club had there 
been so successful a racing season. On each 
Saturday there were held from eleven to four- 
teen different racing events with a liberal num- 
ber of starters in each, and, to show how well 
matched the contestants were, the races aver- 
aged three heats, showing that in most in- 
stances the winners did not have an easy time 
in securing the blue ribbon. With most of the 
matinee clubs working hard to hold their own, 
it was refreshing to the admirers of amateur 
sport to note the flourishing condition of the 
C)ld Colony Club. The winners for the va- 
rious cups and prizes for the season were as 
follows : 

PRIZE WINNERS 

Trotters 

Cup (value $10) for winner of fastest heat — H. W. 

Waite's The Reckoning, i :o8 3-4. 
Harness (value $35) for winner of the greatest 

number of points — H. C. Thayer's Miss Lake, 79. 
Horse clothing (value $20) for fastest average time 

in winning mile races— ^. Frank Daley's The Sen- 
ator. 
Stop watch (value $15) for winner of second great- 
est number of points — J. W. Totman's Kaldar, 

72 1-2. 
Carriage robe (value $10) for fastest average time 

in winning races — H. W. Waite's Catherine C. 
Wool sweater (value $10) for starting and finishing 

in greatest number of races — C. H. Williamson's 

George W. 
Traveling bag (value $10) for winner of most points 

and never before competed in club's races — C. I. 

Swan's Higgins. 56. 
Horse boots (value $7.50) for winner of greatest 

number of races — .'\. A. Davenport's Sampson 

Maid. 
Open bridle (value $6) for winner of most heats — 

C. E. -A-bbott's Stella Nelson. 
Blue ribbon winners — E. C, Wilcox's Nelsa Benton, 

W. H. Foss' Warren H., Sandy Rulston's Patriot, 

and D. M. Biggs' Annie M. 

Pacers 

Silver cup (value $10) for winner of the fastest 
heat — H. W, Waite's Miss Winifred, i :05. 

Harness (value $35) for winner of greatest number 
of points — T. E. McKcnzie's Doubtful, 63 1-2. 

Stop watch (value $15) for winner of second great- 
est number of points — I. R. Anderson's Benjamin, 
S7 }-2- 

Carriage robe (value $10) for fastest average time 
in winning races — J, F. Young's Miss Vassar, aver- 
age I :09 1-4. 

Traveling bag (value $10) for winner of most points 
that never before competed in club's races — E. F. 
Maher's Pauline. 

Horse boots (value $7.50) for winner of greatest 
number of races — B. A. Burke's Blix. 

Blue ribbon winners — H. P. Hobart's Jefferson Mc- 
Kerron, John Dwyer's Bobby. 
Note. — -In 1914 were held 620 races with 1,553 

heats, racing 356 trotters and 264 pacers. 



Well Known Members of Old 
Colony Club 





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MATTHEW C. SPROLL 
Secretary-Treasurer 1913-14 



FRED H. BELLOWS 
Also Member of Metropolitan and Dorches- 
ter Clubs 




KALDAR, 2:17 1-4 

Winner of Third Money in 1909 Readville Handicap and a Sterling Matinee Trotter. 

Owned by S. B. Totman and Driven by J. W. Totman 




KATHERINE R., 2:113-4 

Joint Holder, with Altro L., 2:09 3-4, of Matinee Trotting Record at South Weymouth 

Track of 1:07. Owned and Driven by Harry C. Thayer 




EDITH R., 2:18 1-4 

Has Raced with Success in Matinees of Old Colony Club for Four Seasons. In the 

Cart is George Reed, Grandson of George Reed, One of the Original 

Founders of the Weymouth Agricultural Society on Whose Track 

Edith R. Races. Owned by Josiah B. Reed 



Rector Damon Stetson and His Horses 




FANCY P., Trial 2:22, and CHARM P., Record of 2:10 

Considered the Best Pole Team of Trotters on the South Shore 

TRIXIE S., 2:14 1-2 

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Joint Holder of Matinee Pacing Record at South Weymouth Track of 1:04. 

Owned by E. L. Edes and Driven by I. R. Anderson 




GEORGE \V. 

One of the Best Known Matinee Performers of the Old Colony Club in the Local 

and Interclub Meets. Owned and Driven by George H. Williamson. 



The Quannapowitt 
Driving Club 

1907 1914 



Reading- Wakefield Track 




SHOWING HOMESTRETCH AND GRANDSTAND 




WINNING BY A HEAD 



STABLES SEEN IN BACKGROUND 



The Ouannapowitt Driving Club 



WITH driving clubs representing 
the several sections of Greater 
Boston, the fever spread to 
Reading and the surrounding 
towns in 1907, the dyed-in-the- 
wool horse lovers believing that there was 
sufficient material at hand to form a driving 
club. 

So it came about that in the month of May, 
of that year, the following called a meeting 
that was held in Reading, and the Quanna- 
powitt Driving Club was the outcome : George 
A. Cowdrey, J. C. Alacomber, H. A. Brackett, 
George A. Shackford, T- B. Wilkinson, C. D. 
Wells, Dr. C. H. Playdon, and A. H. Jewett. 

The election of otTicers was made after the 
announcement of the call of the meeting, with 
its object, had been read, as follows: Presi- 
dent, J. C. Macomber ; vice-president, G. A. 
Shackford ; treasurer, G. A. Cowdrey ; secre- 
tary, H. A. Brackett. 

On account of the club's membership being 
so widely scattered, it was decided that the 
organization not attempt having a social side 
in its affairs, outside of holding a banquet 
each year, and possibly a ladies' night. It was 
voted that the annual jneetings be held each 
January, in Odd Fellows' Hall, Reading. 

The first business of the club was the leas- 
ing of the Reading-Wakefield half-mile track 
to hold its matinee races over. It was also de- 
cided that on holidays there be held, in con- 
nection with the racing, a horse show, with 
the entry to come from the local residents 
owning good horseflesh. 

The first season of matinee racing proved 
fully as successful as had been anticipated, 
the membership of the club rapidly growing, 
as the result of the wholesome rivalry in rac- 
ing for the ribbons awarded to the first, sec- 
ond and third horses in the summary of each 
event. 



SEASON OF 1908 



At the first annual election, President Ma- 
comber was re-elected for a second term, 
G. A. Cowdrey being the vice-president, H. A. 
Upton the treasurer, and A. H. Jewett the 
secretary. 

The first annual banquet was held on Janu- 
ary 14, in Hawthorne Hall, Melrose. Arthur 
H. Jewett was toastmaster. Among the guests 
were Hon. Levi S. Gould, county commission- 
er of Middlesex County; President Walter E. 



Newbert and Frank W. Hamlin, of the Dor- 
chester Gentlemen's Driving Club ; Dr. W. H. 
Ximiness, of the Gentlemen's Driving Club 
of Lynn; A. W. Davis, of the Metropolitan 
Driving Club; S. M. Lawrence, Lexington, 
and Frank E. Witherell, of Woburn. After- 
dinner speeches were made by the ones named 
and by Thomas B. Brady, Melrose ; Walter S. 
Parker, Reading; J. B. Wilkinson, Melrose; 
G. A. Shackford, Reading, and H. A. Upton, 
North Reading. 

On June 6, the Lynn Club visited the Read- 
ing track, and in the interclub meet won 10 
of the 18 races from Quannapowitt. The fea- 
ture event was won by Al Ray, the property 
of Eben Phillips, of Lynn, though Directum- 
wood, the Ouannapowitt pacing champion, 
owned by J. B. Wilkinson, made the winner 
march a heat in i 105 1-2. 

Fast time was made on June 17, the trot- 
ting mare Dehesia, owned and driven by 
Thomas Brady, defeated the pacer, Directum- 
wood, in I :09 1-2 and i :o7 1-4. Baron B., 
the property of W. H. Bird, stepped fast, too, 
his heats being paced in i :o8 and i :o8 1-4. 
Another feature was the open air horse show. 

The Quannapowitts visited the Lynns at 
Rockdale Park on July 13, and the result was 
a victory for the Lynn Club, they winning 11 
out of the 16 events on the card. 

It was decided by the officials of the club 
that the second annual banquet be held in De- 
cember, in place of waiting a month later. 
This came off at the Quincy House, Boston, 
on December 16, and Arthur H. Jewett was 
toastmaster. The after-dinner speakers from 
visiting clubs were President Walter E. New- 
bert, of the Dorchester Gentlemen's Driving 
Club; President F. J. Babbett, of the Gentle- 
men's Driving Club of Lynn, and President 
James I. Brooks, of the Fellsway Driving 
Club. Following the entertainment and after- 
dinner speeches, the awards of the cups for 
the season just closed were made, the winners 
being : 

PRIZE WINNERS 
Cup for fastest time trotter in ten races — E. Gerry 

Emmons' Belle Stirling. 
Cup for fastest time pacer in eight races — W. H. 

Bird's Baron B. 
Cup for most races — B. A. Russell's Kellerton. 
Cup for hardest luck — Henry Mellon's Strong Hal. 
Cup for most ribbons in ladies' driving class — Miss 

Myrtle Wells' Woodland. 
Cup for most ribbons in men's driving class — Wil- 
liam P. Pierce's Black Beauty. 



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SEASON OF 1909 



The result of the second annual election 
was as follows : George A. Shackford, presi- 
dent; G. A. Cowdrey, vice-president; H. A. 
Brackett. treasurer ; A. H. Jewett, secretary. 

A peculiar happening was President Shack- 
ford taking a residence out of the State m 
about two weeks after his election. G. A. 
Cowdrey. the vice-president, was thus called 
upon to fill the executive chair for the year. 

During the year many improvements were 
made in the grounds and stands at the Read- 
ing- \\'aketield track, while the club finished 
the season with a neat balance on the right 
side of the ledger. 

The club took part in the big interclub 
meets with Dorchester, Fellsway and Lynn, a 
complete account of which is related else- 
where in this book. 

The principal racing event for the members 
alone was two handicaps held on October 23. 
The one for trotters was won by Levi Herr, 
owned by D. Morin, while the pacing handicaji 
went to Nellie S., driven out by Belle Parks, 
Vice-President Cowdrev's little mare. 



SEASON OF 1910 



The third annual meeting and election of 
the club was held on January 11, when the 
following officers were elected for the ensu- 
ing year : President, George A. Cowdrey ; 
vice-president, W. H. Nichols ; treasurer, 
H. A. Brackett ; secretary, W. P. Pierce ; 
clerk, A. H. Jewett ; directors, G. A. Cowdrey, 
W. H. Nichols, W. P. Pierce. H. A. Brackett, 
C. D. Wells, F. Churchill, C. J. Bolton and 
W. C. Barrows. 

After the business of the evening was de- 
cided, a collation was served in the banquet 
hall. This was followed by speeches, amusing 
stories, and vocal and instrumental music. 
President Cowdrey gave a talk on "Hopples 
and Exhibitions Against Time." The straps 
were "cussed" and the exhibition miles freely 
discussed. 

The annual meeting filled the place of the 
banquet, and it was decided to have a colla- 
tion, with some entertainment, at monthly 
meetings, to be held up to the opening of the 
racing season. 

In the Winter the club laid out a three- 
eighths of a mile course on Lake Quanna- 
powitt, Wakefield, over which was enjoyed 
ice racing for a couple of weeks. On race 
days was served hot coffee, with the prover- 
bial doughnut. 

Early in the season, President Cowdrey 
purchased the trotting gelding, Crown Prince, 



2:17 1-4. and, in the matinee of June 22, he 
defeated three of the fastest pacers owned 
in the club, and reduced the trotting record 
of the track to i :o6 1-2, which, in 1914, still 
remained the mark to shoot at. 

Another record-breaking performance oc- 
curred in the matinee of July 4, when the 




GEORGE A. COWDREY 

Acting President 1909 

President 1910 

pacer. Ginger B., 2:181-4, the property of 
William Pierce, lowered the pacing record of 
the course to i 105, and it still stood as the 
best in 1914. 

The club took part in the big interclub 
meets with the Metropolitan, Fellsway, Lynn 
and Dorchester, that were decided at Combi- 
nation Park, the complete account of which is 
related elsewhere in this book. 



SEASON OF 1911 



The fourth annual meeting and election re- 
sulted as follows: President, AL F. Clarke; 
vice-president, H. A. Brackett; treasurer, 
William B. Pierce ; secretary, A. H. Jewett. 

On July 16, the Lynn Club visited the 
Quannapowitt at the Reading- Wakefield track, 
and won the interclub meet by 49 points to 
17, capturing nine out of the ten races. 

In the return meet between the two clubs, 
on the following Saturday at Rockdale Park, 
the Lynn horses were again victorious, the 
standing being: Lynn, 36; Quannapowitt, 31 
points. 



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SEASON OF 1912 



The annual meeting and election resulted 
as follows: President, AI. F. Clarke; vice- 
president, J. B. Wilkinson ; treasurer, A. H. 
Tewett ; secretary, H. W. Wevmouth ; clerk, 
\V. P. Peirce; directors, M. F. Clarke, J. B. 
Wilkinson, H. W'. Weymouth, A. H. Jewett, 
H. P. Hubbard, Fred Churchill, W. F. Gib- 
bons, George A. Cowdrey and A. W. Simpson. 

The first business attended to by the new 
administration was having the club incorpo- 
rated and chartered by the State. 

A new addition to the club's pacers for the 
matinees was the purchase of the gelding, 
Boraldo, 2.21 1-2. by J. B. Wilkinson. 

There was racing on the ice on Lake Quan- 
napowitt, and during the Summer months the 
weekly matinees over the Reading- Wakefield 
track, which were up to the standard of pre- 
vious vears. 



SEASON OF 1913 



The annual meeting and election resulted as 
follows: President, Herbert A. Brackett ; 
vice-president. W. H. Nichols: treasurer, 




HERBERT A. BRACKETT 
President 1913 

M. F. Clarke; secretary, ^^'. H. Weymouth; 
clerk, ^^^ F. Gibbons; directors, H. A. Brack- 
ett. W. H. Nichols, W. H. Weymouth, M. F. 
Clarke, C. D. Wells, A. H. Simpson, G. A. 
Cowdrey and C. J. Bolton. 

The club held an interclub meet with the 
Fellsway at Combination Park, on July 8, and 



carried ofl:' the honors by the close score of. 
49 points to 47 points. Quannapowitt won 
five of the nine races scheduled, came second 
four times and third in four of the events. 

(Jn July 22, the Fellsway made the return 
interclub meet by visiting the Reading-Wake- 
field track, and again met with defeat, the 
points being, Quannapowitt, 64; Fellsway, 45. 
The local club won all of the races with the 
exception of two. 

Once more were the Quannapowitt horses 
on the winning end, as over the Rockdale 
Park track they defeated Lynn, on August 10, 
by 49 points to 45 points. 

It was decided by the club and several of 
its members that it would prove beneficial were 
prizes offered for the season's matinees and, 
as the result, the club donated a $10 gold piece ; 
President Brackett, a prize cup; M. F. Clarke, 
a prize cup ; and Dr. C. H. Playdon, a $5 gold 
piece. At the close of the season's matinees, 
it was found the winners were as follows: 

PRIZE WINNERS 
Trotters 

Chib prize, $10, for horse winning the most 
points — H. P. Hubbard's Mary Robbins — 50 
points. 

President's prize cup for winning- most races—- 
C. D. Wells' Border W.— 7 races. 

Pacers 

Cup for horse startinsj in greatest number of 
races and Vv'inning the most points — H. W, 
Weymouth's Helen L, — 13 races. -)8 points. 

Dr. Playdon prize, $5 (consolation), for start- 
ing in most races and winning fewest points — 
N. M. Guillow's Banty — 11 races, 32 points. 



SEASON OF 1914 



The annual meeting and election of the club 
resulted as follows : President, Dr. C. H. 
Playdon ; vice-president, W. F. Gibbons ; treas- 
urer, M. F. Clarke ; secretary. H. ^^^ Wey- 
mouth ; clerk, Jason Zurikes ; directors. Dr. 
Plavdon, W. F. Gibbons, H. \\'. \\'evmouth, 
M.'F. Clarke. A. Simpson, H. P. Hubbard, 
Fred Churchill, W. H. Nichols and N. M. 
Gaillow ; racing committee, l\l. F. Clarke, 
chairman, G. F. McDonald, H. W. Wey- 
mouth. 

The club held four interclub meets, two 
each with Lynn and with Fellsway. On Au- 
gust I, the niembers entertained the Lynn 
Club at the Reading-Wakefield track, and de- 
feated them by 62 points to 38 points. The 
following Saturday they visited Rockdale 
Park, and, for the first time in two years, 
they were beaten by Lynn, the standing be- 
ing, Lvnn, 52 points; Quai-majxiwitt, 43 points. 



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There was one race alone on the card that 
was well worth going a long way to see, the 
fast trotting class, between Dehesia, Awning 




1>R. (.. H. Pl.AYDON 
President 1914 



Boy, Crash and Mary Robbins. Crash, driven 
by his owner, Mr. Tassinari, was given the in- 
itial heat over the Quannapowitt entry, Dehe- 
sia, though the gelding paced a lot of the 



way. The time was I :io 1-2. The pacing of 
Crash and decision of the judges started the 
fun. The second heat was given to Dehesia 
in 1:1 1 1-2, though Awning Boy finished 
ahead, but he was placed last, as Charles Mc- 
Govern. his owner and driver, had cut in too 
soon in taking the pole in the first turn. Then, 
amid great cheering, the Lynn trotter. Awn- 
ing Boy, annexed the third heat by a neck 
from Dehesia. It was now do or die for 
Quannapowitt, and Edward Brady, to better 
the conditions, as he thought, turned Dehesia 
over to his son, Paul, to team the fourth heat. 
It proved a good move, as the game little mare 
won in the fastest time of the race, i :io. 

On August 15, the Ouannapowitts went to 
Combination Park and tackled the Fellsways. 
winning by the narrow margin of 36 points to 
34 points. Some of the members of the Fells- 
way complained that one of their members, a 
Mr. \\'ood, withdrew Billy F. in Class F, after 
having finished second in the opening heat, as, 
had he only come last the second trip, the two 
points would have tied Quannapowitt, while 
a second position would have beaten them a 
point 

The return interclub meet between the two 
clubs was held at Reading, on August 22. and 
the Fellsway horses were badly outclassed, the 
defeat being the worst one ever recorded in 
interclub racing in the history of Greater Bos- 
ton, the final standing being, Quannapowitt, 
50 points ; Fellsway, 9 points. 




TOM SMELZEY, 2:18 1-2 

When 29 Years Old He Won Many Races Over Reading Track, and Made Friends by His 

Gameness. Owned and Driven by Henry W. Weymouth, Secretary 1912-13-14 




DEHESIA, 2:23 1-4 

By Bingen, 2:06 1-4, Dam Zembia, 2:11 1-4 (a great pole mare). Dehesia Began Racing 

in Matinees of Quannapowitt Club in 1907, and Was a Blue Ribbon Winner 

in Season of 1914, the Only Horse in Matinees Since Opening of Club. 

A Big Winner of Cups and Blue Ribbons, and a Favorite witli 

All. Owned and Driven by Edward Brady, Melrose, Mass. 




BORDER W. 
One of the Prominent Trotters of the Quannapowitt Club. Winner of President's Cup 
in 1913. Owned and Driven by Charles D. Wells 




HECTOR K., 2:29 1-4 

Sired by Seumanee. Besides Having Speed, is the True Type of a Gentleman's Driver. 

Owned and Driven by W. H. Nichols 




BESSIE WILKES 

Always a Contender in Her Races Against the Best in the Ouannapovvitt Club. 

Owned and Driven bv Fred Churchill 



The Gentlemen's Drivini 
Club of Lynn 

1904 1914 



Rockdale Park, Peabody 




>^,,^^ -///'-*t, 



A LYNN HORSE WINNING 




AFTER A HEAT 



The Gentlemen's Driving Club 
of Lynn 



THE Gentlemen's Driving Club 
of Lynn was conceived by a 
few members of a local social 
club, which held informal meet- 
mgs in the stable of Alden 
Southwortli (Tilton Hall). This small club- 
room was known by the name of The Mis- 
sion, and during one of its services in the 
Winter of T904, some one of the horse en- 
thusiasts suggested that the City of Lynn 
ought to have a driving club. Alden South- 
worth, a well known contractor and amateur 
horse trainer, was the prime mover in organ- 
izing the horsemen, and was ably seconded 
by Frank H. Thompson, who, in later 
years was destined to fill many important 
positions in the Lynn Cluli, such as clerk 
and official starter. 

These two zealous workers were fortified 
by the able assistance of D. Fortin, S. Walter 
Simonds, and Walter F>. Moore, in the 
carrying out of their ideas, and, it was under 
Mr. Moore's suggestion that the club closel\- 
followed, in incorporation and subsequent 
methods of transaction of business, the Dor- 
chester Gentlemen's Driving Club. In fact, 
the Lynn organization have looked upon the 
Dorchester Club as a child would look upon 
its parents, and the most kindly feelings have 
always existed between the members of both 
clubs. 

The small beginning developed a few 
months later into a permanent organization, 
including the names of the most prominent 
citizens of Lynn and surrounding towns. 

The object in the formation of the club 
was : primarily, to stimulate an interest in 
horse matters : and, secondly, to secure a 
speedway for the City of Lynn, which was 
subsequently accomplished, the State appro- 
priating the necessary money and the club 
donating out of its treasury liberally for the 
campaign. 

The Lynn horsemen used the speedway 
for about three years, and then, owing to 
the condition of the land with its constant 
settlement and depressions, it was deemed 
unsatisfactory and the club turned to racing 
at Rockdale Park, Peabody. the speedwav 
being in use only a few Winters and then 
entirely abandoned. 

The first meeting of the club was held 
on June 26, 1904, when \\'illiam La Croix 



was elected president; Walter B. Moore 
first vice-president; S. Waltei;^ Simonds, sec- 
ond vice-president; Clifton Colburn, treas- 
urer; Herbert L. Sawyer, secretary; Samuel 
G. Brown, clerk. 

The first regular racing matinee of the 
club took place on October 7, 1904, at the 




WILLIAM La CROIX 
President 1904-05-06 

Saugus track, and all the events were de- 
cided to wagon. There was a notable gath- 
ering of horsemen at the meet, many coming 
from Danvers, Hamilton and other places 
from a distance. 



SEASON OF 1905 



At the annual election President La Croix 
was again unanimously chosen to fill the 
highest chair of the club, with W. B. Moore 
as first vice-president; S. W. Simonds, sec- 
ond vice-president : Clifton Colburn treas- 
urer : E. E. Bray, secretary, and S. G. Brown 
as clerk. 

The first annual l:)anr|uet was held in Feb- 
ruarv, and particular attention was paid in 
having present the officers and leading mem- 
liers of other driving clubs in Greater Bos- 
ton. President F. J. Brand and Director 



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J. VV. Jinnehan, of the Dorchester Driving 
Club. Walter B. Farmer and John Shep- 
ard of the Gentlemen's Driving Club of 
Boston brought the greetings of their clubs 
and a most pleasant evening was spent in 
talking over matters of interest to the light 
harness horsemen present. 

A special meeting was called in April to 
find the sentiment of the members in the 
leasing of Rockdale Park, Peabody, for the 
season, but the members voted to reject the 
proposition, although the club raced over 
Rockdale on Labor Day. hiring the track 
for that day only. 

On October 21, the club had its first inter- 
city meet, tackling the Dorchester Club over 
the latter's track. 



SEASON OF 1906 



President William La Croix was elected 
his third term for president at the annual 
meeting held in January, the other officers 
l)eing as follows : First vice-president, W. 
B. Moore : second vice-president, S. W. Si- 
monds ; treasurer, Clifton Colburn ; secretary, 
E. E. Bray : clerk, S. G. Brown, this being 
the same retinue of officials as the previous 
year. 

The club had now grown to an organiza- 
tion of upward of 150, with every member's 
dues paid for the year, a very creditable 
showing under the secretaryship of Elmer E. 
Bray. 

The annual banquet of the club was held 



Dorchester Club Members at Lynn's First Interclub Meet at Rockdale Park 




Back Row, reading from left to right:— G. A. Frencli, A. S. Gushee, F. J. Brand, E. G. Richardson, Dr. 

Babbitt, Lynn; J. Mosser, P. J. Fitzgerald, J. E. Swendeman, J. H. Jewett 

Front Row:— E. E. Bray, Lynn; R. S. Fitch, J. M. Carey, S. G. Brown, Lynn; G. H. Greenwood, G. W. 

D'Arcy, S. W. Wales, F. H. Thompson, Lynn. Sitting:— J. W. Linnehan, C. C. Blaney 



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in February, and, like the previous one, was 
a great success. A party of twenty from the 
Dorchester Club was present. All of the 
after-dinner speakers were strong in voicing 
the opinion that the future of the club cer- 
tainly was filled with promise. The speed- 
way was about to be constructed and other 
matters were moving satisfactorily to those 
greatly interested in the club. 

On Labor Day, Dorchester visited the 
Lynn Club at Rockdale Park, and so wide 
was the interest in Lynn, and the surround- 
ing country, that the grandstand was filled 
to overflowing, the quarter-stretch had its 
full quota of spectators, while the railing 
next the inner field was lined with horses at- 
tached to vehicles that were filled with people. 



SEASON OF 1907 



This was a most eventful year m the 
career of the club, matters of importance 
following one another in rapid succession. 
Of course, first came the annual election. 
Dr. F. J. Babbitt received the election of 
president, William La Croix declining to fill 
the chair again, saying he had ushered the 
club through its babyhood days and now, 
while he was willing to act as adviser, if 
necessity required, still he thought the hard 
work of the club should fall on other 
shoulders. Believing that Dr. Babbitt 
should have a strenuous co-partner in the 
liard work that was mapped out for the chili 
that year, the selection of Sam Brown was 
made for first vice-president, while Elmer 
E. Bray was elected second vice-president : 
Clifton Colbnrn, cashier of the Manufac- 
turer's Bank of Lynn, was re-elected to the 
ofSce of treasurer; and Dr. W. H. Ximiness 
secretary. 

The third annual banquet was held on 
February 14, and this was indeed a gala 
occasion. Members of the Dorchester, 
Felisway and Boston clubs were out in force. 
The .speedway was rapidly nearing comple- 
tion, the driving club having for three years 
put in its entire energy in securing it. 
There was a hearty endorsement, too, in hav- 
ing the club buy Rockdale Park. 

On October 22, the purchase of Rockdale 
Park was completed and came into the 
possession of the club. The purchase of 
this .property was made possible through the 
personal efforts and influence of the late 
president, William La Croi.x, who was ably 
assisted by Clifton Colburn. Mr. Colburn 
had not only worked hard in getting the 
track, but it was through his efforts 



that the club secured a nice suite of rooms 
in Union Square, which were made the 
headquarters, or clubhouse, for the members. 
In accomplishing this Mr. Colburn brought 
to bear a great influence on the owners of the 
property in order to obtain the lease. 

After purchasing Rockdale Park, the club 
laid out $1,000 on the property in loaming 




DR. F. J. BABBITT 
President 1907-1911 (inclusive) 

the track, ploughing up the infield, and 
erecting new stables. It was considered by 
the members an ideal outing spot for the 
Summer and that, nearer home, was the 
speedway which could be utilized during 
the sleighing season. 

With" Rockdale Park, a speedway, and a 
comfortable clubhouse, the affairs of the 
organization were now all that could be 
desired. At frequent occasions it was 
deemed a good proposition to entertain the 
other driving clubs of Greater Boston with 
interclub meets, and in this way, not only 
giving good wholesome amusement to the 
members of the driving clubs, but also to the 
citizens of Lynn and surrounding districts. 

On June ly was held an interclub meet 
with the Dorchester Club on the Dorchester 
speedway, the return meeting with that club 
being held at Combination Park on July 4. 

For the first time the club offered silver 
cups for the winners of the season's racing, 
and when the committee had gone through 
the records it was found the following were 
the winners : 



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Trotters 
Championship time cup — W. La Croix's The Sail- 

orman — I :o8 1-4. 
Point cup — W. La Croix's Sally March. 

Pacers 
Championship time cup — T. \V. Fogg's Lady Laurin, 

1:03. 
Point cup — J. G. Fadden's Sunderland King. 



SEASON OF 1908 



At the annual election Dr. F. J. Babbitt 
was re-elected president ; first vice-president, 
E. E. Bray: second vice-president, Eben B. 
Phillips ; treasurer, Clifton Colburn ; secre- 
tary, Charles Cliambcrlain ; clerk, S. G. 
Brown. 

The customary banquet was held in Feb- 
ruary, the political fathers of the City of 
Lynn being:;' present, as were prominent offi- 
cials from other driving clubs. A real old- 
fashioned jollification took place, the club 
being in a most flourishing- condition and 
everything apparently insuring the }ear to 
coine to be one of prosperity. 

There was much racing on the Rockdale 
track during the season, members of the 
club coming forward with large donations 
for the prizes to be contested for, the list 
likely to be one of the very largest that had 
been avvarded by any of the Greater Boston 
clubs. The following is the list of prize 
winners : 

Trotters 
Championship time cup — Frank J. Linnehan's Rose 

Mack. I :o_7 3-4. 
Championship heat cup — Levi Lord's General. 
L. H. Phillips cup — F. J. Linnehan's Rose Mack. 
Lynn Daily Item cup for most heats in 1:113-4 or 

better — George Cnkeley's Forrest W. 

E. B. Phillips cup — Levi Lord's General. 

W. F. Newhall cup — William La Croix's King Bin- 
gen. 

Cochato prize (service fee of stallion) — Levi Lord's 
General. 

Arfrida prize (service fee of stallion) — James G. 
Croscup's Red Oak. 

Pacers 

Championship time cup — T. W. Fogg's Lady Lau- 
rin, I :05. 

Championship heat cup — William La Croix's Rose 
Direct. 

F. J. Linnehan cup — T. W. Fogg's Lady Laurin. 
Lynn Theatre cup — E. B. Phillips' Al Ray. 

Race Committee cup — J. G. Fadden's Sunderland 

King. 

Torrence-Vary prize (one ton of hay) — William La 

Croix's Rose Direct. 

Other Prize Winners 
W. F. Smith's prize (suit of horse clothing) — John 

A. Wood's Fanny B. 
E. E. Bray's prize (suit of horse clothing) — E. B. 

Phillips' Al Ray. 
W. H. Hutchinson's prize (stable outfit) — E. Gerry 

Emmons' Regent. 



J. G. Fadden's prize (stable outfit) — A. A. Pitman's 

Lady Nance. 
S. H. Dane's prize (whip) — Charles G. Wilson's 

Walter M. 
H. H. Fullam's prize (two-stall awning) — M. J. 

Healey's Dare Devil, Jr. 
House Committee prize (stop watch) — W. C. Whit- 

tredge's O. S. W. 
Robinson-Brockway prize (street blanket) — George 

S. Manson's Gipsey Girl. 
Ranno Saddlery Co. prize (harness) — L. H. Phillips' 

Mink McGregor 
Z. S. Richard's prize ($15 of shoeing) — Joseph G. 

Fadden's Sunderland King. 
Richard McGlue prize ($15 of shoeing) — George S. 

Manson's Prince. 
T. & B. prize (chair) — J. V. Ingraham's Pertrina. 
M. Plumslead prize (carriage robe) — Charles Ma- 
son's Helen R. 
M. J. Healey prize (box of oranges), driver having 

hardest luck — Mertie L. Paige. 
Besse-Rolfe prize (dress suit case), driver appearing 

in the most attractive and appropriate uniform — 

Frank H. Thompson. 
H. J. Pearce prize (meerschaum pipe) — William La 

Croix's Sally March. 



SEASON OF 1909 



Again was Dr. Bal^bitt re-elected to fill 
the office of president at the annual meet- 
ing of the club. The first vice-president 
was E. E. Bray ; second vice-president, E. B. 
Phillips ; treasurer, Clifton Colburn ; secre- 
tary. Charles Chamberlain ; clerk, S. G. 
Brown. 

During the year there were held the usual 
banquet and weekly matinees over Rock- 
dale Park, but, in general, the club contin- 
ued on the even tenor of its way, there being 
very little of an unusual character to men- 
tion, except the big interclub meets between 
Lynn, Dorchester, Fellsway and Ouannapow- 
itt. In this series of matinees the Lynn 
horses did excellent work, though they fin- 
ished third in the list, getting 127 points for 
the series, while in the second meeting of 
the series they secured more points than 
any of the other clubs. 

At the close of the matinee season, the race 
committee. Eben B. Phillips, chairman, an- 
nounced the following prize winners : 

Trotters 
Time cup — Won by Eben B. Phillips' Croesus. 
Point cup — Won by Levi Lord's General. 

Pacers 
Time cup — Won by True W. Fogg's Lady Laurin. 
Point cup — Won by A. Hunson's Miss Manager. 



SEASON OF 1910 



Dr. Babbitt was once more chosen to per- 
form the duties of president of the club and 
was unanimously elected at the annual meet- 
ing, E. E. Bray filling the position of first 



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vice-president : E. J!. I'liiilips, secund \ice- 
president ; Charles Chamberlain, secretary 
and treasurer, and the ever reliable Sam G. 
Brown as clerk. 

This season was held the big interclub 
meets between the Metropolitan, Fellsway, 
Dorchester, Ouannapowitt, and Lynn, all of 
the events being decided at Combination 
Park. In this series of matinees th^ Lynn 
Club finished third, only fifteen points back 
of the ^Metropolitans, and five points in the 
rear of the Fellsway Club, which finished 
second. 

Even with all the local racing at Rock- 
dale Park, interclul) meets, the Winter 
banquet and other diversions, C. J- McGov- 
ern, one of the enthusiastic members of the 
club, concluded to try an outside diversion 
liy entering his horse. Awning Boy, in a 
three-quarter mile handicap race at Com- 
bination Park. ]\Iedford. Then he was 
very happily pleased with winning the race, 
and the time was announced as i 148. Soon 
after, however, he discovered that under the 
National Trotting Association rules, any 
horse winning a heat at a distance greater 
than a half-mile and under a mile secured 
a record or bar. This caused Mr. McGov- 
ern considerable worriment, as he had 
counted on starting Awning Boy in a few 
professional races, and had supposed that 
he was eligible to the slow classes. Finally 
^Ir. McGovern carried his case before the 
board of appeals of the N. T. A., in New 
York, and they declared that inasmuch as 
Awning Boy had earned a record of i :48 it 
would havf= to stand, making the gelding 
eligible only for the free-for-alls. Nat- 
urally, this ruling put Mr. McGovern out of 
vi'inning any of the rich stakes, like the M. 
i.*i: M., the Massachusetts, etc. 

The prize winners for the year of lyio 
follow : 

Trotters 
Championship time cup — E. B. Phillips' Croesus. 
Point cup — Levi Lord's General. 

Pacers 
Championship time cup — T. W. Fogg's Lady Laurin. 
Point cup — A. Hanson's Miss Manager. 



SEASON OF 1911 



Dr. Babbitt still continued to receive the 
most votes for president of the driving club, 
as, at the annual meeting in January, he 
was elected to sit in the big chair for another 
term, making it his fifth consecutive year in 
the office. Other officers were : First vice- 
president, E. E. Bray ; second vice-president. 



E. B. Phillips ; secretary and treasurer, 
Charles Chamberlain : clerk, S. G. Brown. 

The club decided early in the season not 
to participate in any more interclub meets, 
or rather a big interclub meet like the pre- 
vious year with the events to be decided at 
Combination Park. If similar to the sea- 
son of 1909, when the several clubs met at 
each of the tracks in rotation, thus having 
one of the series at Rockdale Park, the 
Lynn Club would act differently in being a 
l)ary to intercltib racing. 

At the conclusion of the club's Summer 
of matinee racing at Rockdale, the following 
were awarded the cups for the year: 

Trotters 
Championship time cup — F. J. Linnehan's Rose 

Mack, I :07 3-4, i :07, i -.07. 
Point cup — C. J. McGovern's Awning Boy. 

Pacers 
Championship time cup — E. B. Phillips' Reliance, 

1:043-4, 1:041-4. 
Point cup — A. Hanson's Dewey Dumas. 



SEASON OF 1912 

Tb.ere was a change in the list of officials 
at the annual election. Dr. Babbitt refusing 
anv further honors in that line. While he 




ELMER E. BR.\Y 
President 1912 

said he wanted to be a good fellow and 
would always have his heart'si interest in 
the welfare of the club, yet he thought that 
five years in harness gave him the privilege 
of sitting on the side lines for a while and 
watch how somebodv else could do it. 



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His successor was Elmer E. Bray, who 
had been Dr. Babbitt's right hand bower for 
a number of years, having in succession, 
filled the offices of secretary, second vice- 
president, and then first vice-president. E. 
B. Phillips was made first vice-president, 
Sam G. Brown, second vice-president, and 
the secretary and treasurer was Charles 
Chamberlain. 

During this year occurred the work-horse 
parade, modeled after the one held so many 
years with pronounced success in Boston. 
The event was held on June 17. President 
Bray was responsible for Lynn having this 
parade, as it was entirely through his per- 
sonal efforts and self-sacrifice that the afifair 
was instituted. President Bray even went 
so far as to say that any financial shortage 
he would personally be responsible for. In 
this connection, it may be well to state that 
President Bray was the man who secured 
the major portion of the subscriptions _ for 
the splendid drinking fountain in Washing- 
ton Square, Lynn, which was bought by. or 
through the Society of Prevention of Cru- 
elty to Animals. 

There was the usual interesting racing of 
the club at Rockdale Park during the Sum- 
mer months, while in the Winter the sport 
to sleigh was done on President Street, in 
Lynn, which was put in shape by the club 
and policed by the city. The cup awards 
for the year follow : 

Trotters 
Championship time cup— E. B. Phillips' Croesus. 
Point cup — Levi Lord's General. 

Pacers 
Championship time cup — Charles Nason's Pat 

Haynes. 
Point cup — Leonard Phillips' Lady Russell. 



SEASON OF 1913 



Though loath to have Elmer E. Bray give 
up the reins of governmentship he had held 
but a single year, and also to step aside 
from active work in the club's interest, yet 
Mr. Brav was firmly decided in the matter, 
as he could not see where his valuable 
services were now as necessary as in the 
years gone by when the club had to get out 
of its creeping clothes and grow into long 
pants. 

With Mr. Bray eliminated, the choice of 
the club naturally fell on Eben B. Phillips, 
the well known horseman, wdio the year be- 
fore had filled the position of first vice-pres- 
ident and in no less than four terms the 
office of second vice-president. Sam G. 
Brown a twenty-four-hour-a-day worker in 



the interests of the club was elected side 
partner to President Phillips, he being made 
vice-president. The ofiice of second vice- 
president was eliminated, but for secretary 
and treasurer, J. M. Harriman was elected 




EBEN B. PHILLIPS 
President 1913 

in place of Charles Chamberlain who had 
held the important position of secretary for 
five years. Sam Brown also received the ap- 
pointment of clerk. 

During the season there were several in- 
terclub races held at Rockdale Park, and 
return meets when the club's horses visited 
the Reading track and Coinbination Park. 
As the result of the series of matinees be- 
tween themselves the winners of the annual 
club prizes were as follows : 

Trotters 
Championship time cup — F. L. Morse's Willie John. 
Point cup— R. T. Rockett's Estell Boy. 

Pacers 
Championship time cup — H. T. Birdsey's Mardel. 
Point cup — S. L. Marden's Kitty Napes. 



SEASON OF 1914 



At the annual election, the club rewarded 
Samuel G. Brown with the presidency, the 
war horse of the organization, who had been 
in fighting armor in the interests of the club 
ever since its inception, being one of the 
few that originally instituted the club from 
the old "mission boys." A. J. Hollinsworth 
was elected vice-president, J. M. Harriman 



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was re-elected to the office of secretary and 
treasurer, wliile A. ti. Wood was appointed 
clerk. 

On being notified of his election, Pres- 
ident Brown addressed the members in his 
well known inimitable wa}', which frequently 




SAMUEL G. BROWN 
President 1914 

brought forth prolonged applause from those 
within hearing distance. The following is a 
portion of liis address : 

"Fellow members of the Gentlemen's 
Driving Club of Lynn : For many years I 
have associated with all of you in a more 
or less detailed manner having, as you know, 
been one of the original few that brought 
this organization into existence. In these 
years T have filled all of the positions that 
the club can give its members, from clerk, 
starting judge, handicapper and general man- 
of-all-work until now it is my privilege, 
through the courtesy of my brothers present, 
to fill the highest honor in their ]30wer to 
bestow upon me. It is with becoming mod- 
esty that I will state that my ambition in 
life has now been fully achieved in having 
the honored place of president of this grand 
and good club, which stands for good fel- 
lowship and the love of that noble animal — 
the horse. 

"Tonight my mind goes back to the scene 
of 1904. when we were just branching out 
into a driving club and held our initial mat- 
inee over the old Saugus race track. Well 
I remember how John Shepard, the dean of 
Boston road drivers, came out to see his 



close friend. Mr. (,'urrier of L\nn, win one of 
the events with the well kiii:>\vn trotter, El 
Paso. 

"Even through the jmssing of years, in my 
mind's eye comes many of the celebrated 
horses that have been owned by the Lynn 
club, such as: The Sailorman, 2:14 1-4, 
that in the intercity meet at Combination 
Park between five clubs defeated Mack 
Mack, 2:08; Chase, 2:07 1-4; Crown Prince 
and Carl C. trotting the second heat in 
I :o3 3-4. This fast gelding was the prop- 
erty of our late lamented member, William 
La Croix, who during his connection with 
the driving club did such excellent work in 
bringing about the prosperity we have since 
been blessed with. His death will always 
be remembered by the members of this 
club and true horsemen of Greater Boston, 
with the deepest of regret. 

"Then, my thoughts drift along to that 
great little pacer. Reliance, 2:11 1-4, owned 
by Eben R. Phillips that, at the same inter- 
club matinee won his race and made a New 
England record for pacers over a half-mile 
track by titrning the course in i :oi 1-2. 
Pat Haynes with a record of 2 '.oj, was also 
owned by a member of the Lynn Club. The 
matinee trotter, Croesus, 2:19 1-2, who for two 
whole seasons was invincible, getting a mat- 
inee trotting record of i :o6 over Combina- 
tion, raced many years for us. Lady Laurin, 
2:13 1-2, was one of the Lynn star perform- 
ers taking a matinee record over Rockdale 
Park at i :o3, and also winning a race at 
Combination Park, where the average time 
of her heats was i 103 1-2. The name of 
Rose Mack was also conspiciious on our 
list, she being at all times up to the heat in 
I :o6 or i -.oy on the trot. Later, we owned 
the campaigner, Peter Sterling, 2:11 1-2, and 
still we cannot forget Lady Nance, 2:18 1-2, 
the chestnut mare owned by the late Mr. 
Pitman, which was one of the most reliable 
of matinee performers, nor Widlar, 2:16 3-4, 
that Lincoln Pedrick raced so successfully. 

"The coming season we expect to see in 
our own matinees, and those with rival 
driving clubs in interclub meets, the fast 
pacing gelding, Kid Downey, 2:16 1-2 and 
T. E. P., both of which should race over our 
half-mile track on Saturday afternoons in 
I :o7 or i :o8. 

"I will now assert that in following the 
example of the Dorchester Gentlemen's 
Driving Club, and, in later years the Fells- 
way Club, that I look back with great pleas- 
ure to many social appointments which we 
interchanged and earnestly believe that our 
thorough organization, with its code of by- 



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laws and 
I mention 



racing rules, taken from the clubs 
, are accountable to a great degree, 




J. MARC HARRIMAiN 
Secretary-Treasurer 1913-14 

if not entirely, to whatever success we have 
had. 



"In closing, I will say, furthermore, while 
we are still racing horses and holding prom- 
inent inlerchil) meets, yet at the same time, 
we, nor hardly any of the driving clubs, have 
exactly the same racing material, as far as 
calibre, that we had several years ago. We 
have lost through death many of our en- 
tliusiasts and wealthy horse owners, men 
who were financially able to keep horses for 
matinee purposes. At the same time we 
have now a membership role of upwards of 
200 members, and we intend to keep right 
on racing liorses at the same old Rockdale 
Park." 

There was a successful season of matinee 
racing at Rockdale Park, and two interclub 
meets were held with the Ouannapowitt. the 
club in turn going to Reading track and en- 
tertaining their neighbors at home. The hon- 
ors were divided, as each club secured the most 
points at their own track. 

In the season's matinees the following were 
the prize winners : 

Trotters 
Time Cup — Frank Morse's Willie John. 
Point Cup — C. E. Burns' Hazel Delmar. 

Pacers 
Time Cup — H. M. Brewer's Kid Downing. 
Point Cup — Walter Hackett's F. E. P. 




HENRY H. FULLAM 
Charter Member of Lynn Club and Prominent in Matinee Racing 



Big Interclub Matinees 

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PHOEBON VV., 2:08 3-4 

Made World's Record of 2:16 1-4 to Ice in Fifth Heat of Winning Race over Half-mile Track 

at Ottawa in 1907, and Received a Valuable Silver Cup. 

Owned and Driven by W. J. Furbush 




PICTURE HAT 

One of the Handsomest Trotters in Greater Boston and a Perfect Driving Horse. 

Owned and Driven by Harry J. Russell 



Metropolitan vs. Concord, N. H. 

FIRST of the important interclub jjrize for a double-seated sleigh was awarded 
races held in Greater Boston was to Caleb Chase, who with his family occupied 
between the Metropolitan and an elegant vis-a-vis, drawn by a pair of short- 
Concord (N. H.) Driving Clubs tailed horses, 
at the Charles River Speedway, In the evening a banquet was held at the 
on February 12, 1907. The invitation to the Quincy House. Nearly 300 sat down to the 
New Hampshire horsemen was given by the dinner, and everyone had a jolly good time, 
members of the Mets in return for the royal Compliments were showered upon the Met- 
good time the home boys had had in the inter- ropolitan Club by President H. H. Dudley and 
club meeting held in Concord on February other members of the Concord Club. The first 
15, 1905. speaker of the evening was Mayor Fitzgerald, 
While the day was the most severe of the who eulogized the horse, and was enthusias- 
entire Winter, yet the footing could not have tically received. Perhaps the most important 
been better than that day at Charles River, and speech was that of Chairman de Las Casas 
the visitors and home horsemen had a thor- of the Metropolitan Park Commission. Mr. 
oughly enjoyable occasion. About eighty of de Las Casas went into the history of the 
the husky sons of the Granite State came on building of the Charles River Speedway. Pres- 
the first early train, and later trains brought ident Newbert of the Dorchester Club spoke 
still more. The cold weather did not prevent in favor of holding a big convention of all the 
a large attendance at the speedway, the Sol- driving clubs of New England in this city at 
diers Road being filled with sleighs of all de- an early date. Other speakers were A. S. 
scriptions, while the sidewalks were lined with Perrin of Buflfalo, Edwin A. Bayley and T. 
spectators, all muffled to their eyes to keep Lee Ouimby. Summary of the races : 
out the strong wind. 

While there were twelve races scheduled, '^'''Ychw^^"'''' ^P"''"'''^^' ^'''- '"' 'W-Class A, 

yet the Concord members not having entries HugrTafie.n's b. m., Canterbury Girl (Tal- 

in Classes E and F, it was decided by the lent) C i 1 

committee, comprised of members from the A. J. Furbu.sh's ch. g., C. E. Jordan (Furbush) 

two clubs, that in settling the afternoon's dis- „ ; ■;;■;,: ■•■;■•, w : — ; ■ • „■. — ■••■■• ^ - 

,,,,,•■,?. , ■ ^, D- J. Nelhgan s b. g., Major (Nelligan) B .. 33 

pute the club wmnmg the most races m the l N. Cushman's br! m.. B.. 4 4 

ten should be declared the conqueror. Time— 33s., 321-45. 
The sport proved very thrilling, it being nip 

and tuck for the honors to the very finish, the '--'^^^ ^- trottmg. 

Metropolitan horses scoring six of the ten w r rTb'.n^ t ^^w" ^I't'^rr ^k ^VV r ' ' 

^ ^^, , , 11 , . r TT-, "• ^- (-orbett s ch. m., V\ avelite (Corbett) B 3 2 

events through the e.xcellent showmg of Wll- J. E. Marsfon's b. g., William L. (Marston) C 2 3 

Ham Emerson's pacing mare, Louise E., and H H. Cook's b. g., Billy Ross (Cook) B 4 4 

W. F. Bennett's gelding, Mardel, each of Time— 33 i-4s., 33 i-4s. 

which stepped heats in 31 seconds in defeat- ^lass C. pacing. 

mo their speedy opponents. M. P. Collins' ch. g., Apollo (Collins) B. . 2 i i 

The Concord Club, however, besides win- M. A. Nevens' b. g.. Gen. Fiske (Nevens) 

ning four of the races, came in for additional ^ i 3 2 

glory in capturing the Van Naman cup for ";,.a;)"c''^"''^'' ^' ^'' ^"'"''°" (^=>"'3- 

the fastest heat of the day which went to the ^'^^" Time— 348^355 331-45 ^ ^ -5 

rapid fire little gray gelding, Amos R., who 

tramped of? the first heat in 30 1-2 seconds. t>^I^*^ D, trottmg. 

In connection with the racing there was a nin) T".'. . .^.•'. . . .'. .^ ' '^'■°' i 4 , 

carnival parade which was a pronounced sue- G. P. Smith's ch. g., Sunoio Dudley (Dunt- 

cess. George Leonard gave a valuable silver ley) B 2 i 3 

cup for the most "old-fashioned" rig on the ^ ,^- Doherty's ch. g., Alclay H. (Bigley) 

road, which was won by Miss Margaret W. t m tt" Mr,Vr;ii'c' 'k u V I- ' ' ;»t" ' "+ ^ ^ 

•n ,, J .,, .-',-_ S . . J- M. h.. Morrill s b. m., Helvetia (Mor- 

Pope, the red ribbon gomg to Mrs. Benjamm rill) B 335 

Pope, and the yellow ribbon to A. L. Power. J. E. Fitzgerald's b. g., Vesper (Fitzger- 

There were twentv entries in this class. The ^'^) ^ 6 6 4 

prize for the best 'pony turn-out was won by "^'c^mJ^'^B'"'"''''' '"'' ^" '^''°' ^^^ ^^^^' 

Miss Agatha Kendall, of Brookline. A special '""^ Time-34 3-4s.,' 37 'i-Vs'.,' 34' 3-45: ^ ^ ^ 




ROB B. 
Winner of Quarter-mile Heat in 30 Seconds at Franklin Field Speedway. Still 
Remained in 1914 Track Record to Sleigh. Owned and Driven by M. A. Nevens 




BILLY WILKES, 2:18 1-2 

Prominent in the Matinees at Charles River and Franklin Field Speedways 

Owned and Driven by E. S. Morse 



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Class E, pacing 
H. G. Kilkenney's b. m., Angle Wilkes (Kil- 

kenney) C i i 

H. G. Reld's b. g. Colbath (Reid) B 2 2 

Henry Wood's b. g., Nyphen (Wood) B 4 3 

F. H. Fay's b. m., Embrino (Fay) B 3 4 

Time— 33 3-4S., 33 3-4s. 

Class F, trotting. 
W. J. Bates' b. h., Binjolla (Trout) B.... 3 i I 
A. H. Fitch's b. g., Hills Boy (Dr. Fitch) B 2 3 2 
W. J. Furbush's b. g., Little Ben ( Furbush ) 

B I 2 dr 

Fred Ames' b. m., Clara Peck (Ames) B.. 4 4 dr 
Time— 34 i-2s., 34s.. 34s. 

Class G, pacing. 

J. E. Marston's b. m.. Velnor (Marston) C... i i 

C. S. Johnson's b. g., Rob B. (Nevens) B.... 2 2 

WiUiam La Croix's b. g.. Max C. (Trout) B.. 3 3 

Time— 34s. 33 i-^s. 

Class H, trotting. 

F. L. Merrill's b. g., Norvet (Ralston) B i i 

F. E. Burnham's b. g.. Bert S. (Gibbons) B.. 22 

H. F. Miller's b. g.. Happy Jack (Duntley) C 3 3 

F. C. Garmon's b. g.. Hulman (Garmon) B.. 44 

Time— 33 3--4S., 3^ i-4s. 



Class K, pacing. 

William H. Emerson's b. m., Louise E. (Lock- 
wood ) B I I 

L. E. Currier's b. g., Palatka Jr. (Currier) C 2 2 
Time — 31 1-4S., 31s. 

Class L, pacing. 
W. F. Bennett's ch. g., Mardel (Bennett) B.. 11 
N. A. Dunklee's ch. g., Red Rex (Dunklee) C 2 2 
Time— 31 3-4S-, 31 s. 

Class N, trotting. 
F. B. Horton's br. m., Alga W. (Belledeu) 

B 3 I I 

F. E. Smith's ch. m., Nancy Nelson 
(Smith) B I 3 3 

T. G. Plant's blk. m., Alice Carr (Plant) 

B 222 

John Cruikshank's b. g., Stam B. (Cruik- 

shank) C ' 4 4 4 

Time— 32 i-4s , 33 i-4s., 33s. 

Class R, Pacing 

G. W. Rice's g. g., Amos R. (Rice) C 1 i 

\\illiam La Croix's g. g., Tiger (Trout) B.. 22 
Arthur H. Parker's b. h. Ha! Ensign (Ralston) 

B 3 3 

Time — 30 i-2s., 32 1-4S. 



Dorchester Wins Big Four-Cornered 
Interclub Silver Cup 



AFTER considerable agitation at 
the meeting of the committees 
from the four driving clubs, it 
was finally decided to hold a 
grand interclub series of racing 
between the Dorchester, Fellsway, Lynn and 
Quannapowitt Driving Clubs, two of the meets 
to be at Combination Park and one each at 
Rockdale Park, Peabody, and the Reading- 
Wakefield track. It was decided by the com- 
mittee that in scoring points the first horse in 
each race was to be credited with five points, 
the second horse three points, and the third 
horse one point. In case of a tie for second or 
third place, the horses standing equal in the 
summary must go another heat to decide 
which was to be credited with tlie points in 
dispute. 

On June 26, 1909, at Combination Park, 
Medford, was held the first meeting in the 
series of interclub matinees. It was a fore- 
gone conclusion that the racing would be of 
a sensational order, as included among the 
list of entries from the four clubs were no- 
ticed the names of the following horses : 
Pacers — Cascade, 2 :o6 1-2 ; Louise G., 2 :o8 1-2 
pacing and 2:21 trotting; Aintree, 2:103-4; 



Jimmy B., 2:11 1-4: Reliance, 2:11 1-4; Lou- 
ise E, 2:11 3-4, and a matinee record to 
wagon of 2:10 3-4; Lady Laurin, 2:13 1-2; 
and B. S. Dillon, 2:14 1-4; trotters— Altro L., 
2:09 3-4; Talpa, 2:09 3-4; Lord Quex, 
2:101-2; Tom Phair, 2:141-4; Axtelloid, 
2:15 1-4; and Hawkins, 2:16 1-4. 

The honors of the afternoon were secured 
by the Dorchester Club winning thirteen 
points more than its nearest opponent, Fells- 
wa\-, and taking five of the twelve events on 
the card. John W. Coakley won the fastest 
race of the day, for a trotter, with Crown 
Prince, the second heat of his race being in 
I :05 1-4. Knap Forshner with King's Heir, 
and Charley Bailey with Aintree, were the 
stars in the pacing division, the former win- 
ning the race and a heat in i :o5 1-4, while 
Aintree scored the second heat in i :o4 3-4. 
Lady Laurin and Cascade also had a bitter 
fight, with the honors going to the former, the 
fastest heat in i :o5 1-2. 

The second interclub matinee of the series 
was held on the home grounds of the Lynn 
Driving Club, at Rockdale Park, Peabody, on 
July 24. All of Lynn, it seemed, turned out 
to see the races, the grandstand and quarter- 



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stretch being packed with spectators. The 
racing was very interesting, and, after a se- 
vere contest, the Lynn Club were returned the 
victors for the afternoon, by the close margin 
of a single point, having earned 36, to their 
nearest competitor, Dorchester, which got 35. 
Sam G. Brown, of Lynn, was the starting 
judge, and his excellent work was appreci- 
ated by all. 

The feature event proved to be between 
Directumwood and Lady Laurin, the former 
winning through the clever driving of El- 
dredge, the master reinsman of the Dorchester 
Club. Another very closely contested race 
was Reliance beating Cascade. For the trot- 




(;i;m;r.\i,, i.m 1-4 

Defeated Major Dillard at Combination Park, 

and a Star Field of Trotters at Rockdale Park 

in Interclub Meet. Owned and Driven 

by Levi S. Lord 

ters. General, owned and driven by Levi Lord, 
defeated a crack field of starters, while an- 
other race that kept the crowd on tiptoes un- 
til the winner was announced was Croesus de- 
feating Crown Prince, the third and final lieat 
being in the fast time of i :oy. 

The interclub series now moved to the 
Wakefield-Reading track, the home of the 
Quannapowitt Club, the meeting being held on 
August 21. A peculiar feature of this occa- 
sion was that thirty minutes before the first 
race was called there was a mere handful of 
people in the grandstand, and when the word 
was given for the first heat of the afternoon, 
not a seat could be found for those who 
were tardy in arriving, so quickly had the 
grandstand filled to overflowing. Showing 
how evenly matched the horses were, Dor- 
chester scored the most points of the after- 
noon by three points over Fellsway, while 
the latter was only two ahead of Lynn, thus 
only five, points between these three clubs. 



The big race was between Reliance and 
Directumwood. The meeting between the two 
at Lynn had aroused a lot of feeling between 
tlie admirers of each of the fast pacers. The 
first heat both raced head and head the entire 
half-mile, and were so closely aligned at the 
wire that the judges could not separate them 
and were obliged to announce a dead heat, the 
time being I :o4 3-4. The second heat looked 
like a repetition of the first to the quarter, but 
at this point Reliance moved out in front and 
won by a couple of lengths in the same time 
as the first heat. The last trip Reliance led 
all the way, winning handily in I :o3 1-2, 
which lowered the track record i 3-4 seconds, 
held by Al Ray. 

Dorchester was successful in Class H, for 
trotters, Harry C. Thayer taking the event 
with Altro L., the first heat in i 109 1-2, while 
another interesting trotting class was that won 
by Walter Corbett with Lord Quex, the sec- 
ond heat in i :o8 1-2. 

The closing matinee of the series of inter- 
club racing was held at Combination Park, on 
September 25, and while the afternoon's racing 
resulted in Fellsway getting 42 points to 36 
for Dorchester and 30 for Lynn, yet in the 
entire series Dorchester was returned the 
victor by securing 152 points, Fellsway 131, 
Lynn 127, and Quannapowitt 45, which gave 
to the Dorchester Gub the elegant silver cup 
that was the trophy for the club winning the 
series. 

Without the opposition of Reliance, Direc- 
tumwood had an easy time winning his event. 
The real stirring races of the afternoon were 
the victories of Louise E. over Lady Laurin, 
and of Croesus, in Class K, each of these 
horses having to step in i 107 3-4 to win their 
respective events. 

POINTS WON IN INTERCLUB MEETS 

Clubs Dor. Fells. Lynn. Quann. 

First Matinee 45 32 30 n 

Second Matinee .... 35 24 36 12 

Third Matinee 36 33 31 20 

Fourth Matinee 36 42 30 2 

Total Points 152 131 12/ 45 

Combination P.\rk, Medford, June 26, 1909. 
Class A, trotting. 

The Christian, b. g. (Forshner) F i i 

Billy Ross, b. g. (Bailey) D 2 2 

Claynette, b. m. (La Croix) L 3 3 

Adonis, b. g. (Rice) Q 4 4 

Time — i :io 1-2, i :ii 

Class B, pacing. 

Edith R.. ch. m. (Rideout) F i I 

Go See. b. g. (Gushee) D 2 2 

Chesterhallis, bik. g. (Gibbons) Q 3 *4 

VVinola, b. m. (Delano) L 4 3 

Time — i :io, i ;o8 1-2. 

*Won heat to decide tie for third place. 



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Class C, trotting. 

General, b. g. (Lord) L 2 i i 

Major Dillard, gr. g. (Trout) D i 2 2 

Time — 1:091-4. 1:121-4. 1:10. 

Class D, pacing. 

Lady Laurin, b. m. (Page) L I I 

Cascade, br. g. (Coakley) D 2 2 

Major M., b. g. (Rideout) F 4 *3 

Blue Light, ch. g. ( Brackett) Q 3 4 

Time — i :o6, i -.0$ 1-2. 

♦Won heat to decide tie for third place. 

Class E, trotting. 

Croesus, br. g. (Phillips) L i I 

Oleander, b. g. (Brackett) Q 3 2 

Hawkins, blk. g. (Trout) D 2 4 

Axtelloid, ch. g. (York) F 4 3 

Time — I 107 3-4, i :o8 1-2. 

Class F. pacing. 

King's Heir, ch. g. (Forshner) F i 3 I 

Aintree, b. g. (Bailey) D 2 I 4 

Directumwood. b. g. (GifFord) Q 322 

Charlena, b. m. (Blaney) L 4 4 3 

Time— I :05 1-4. 1:043-4, 1:051-2. 

Class G, trotting. 

Crown Prince, ch. g. (Coakley) D i I 

Capt. Higginson. b. g. (Wood) L 2 2 

Talpa, b. m. (Forshner) F 3 3 

Time — i :o6 1-2, i :05 1-4. 

Class H, pacing. 

B. S. Dillon, ch. g. (Ralston) D i 3 i 

Bonnie Belle, ch. m. (Rideout) F 3 i 2 

Belle Sherwood, b. m. (Foster) Q 2 2 3 

Time — i :os, i :o6 1-2, i :o6. 

Class I, trotting. 

Louise G, b. m. (Bailey) D i i 

Lord Quex, b. g. (Ralston) F 2 2 

Time — i :07 3-4, I :o6 1-2. 

Class J, pacing. 

Jimmy B., b. g. (Phillips) L I i 

Dr. Band. b. g. (Richardson) D 2 2 

Pat L., ch. g. (Crowley) F 3 3 

Time — i :09 3-4, i :i i. 

Class K, trotting. 

Ginger, b. g. (Eldredge) D i i 

Shimosa, b. m. (Rice) F 3 *2 

Forrest W., b. g. (Page) L 2 3 

Hampshire Boy, br. g. (Cowdrey) Q 4 4 

Time — i :o8, i :io 1-2. 

*Won heat to decide tie for second place. 

Class L, pacing. 

Krispen, blk. g. (Coakley) D I i 

Helen R., b. m. ( Page ) L 2 2 

Grey F., blk. g. (Thyng) F 3 3 

Time — i :og. i :io. 



Rockdale P.^^rk, Pe.abody, July 24. 1909. 
Class A, trotting. 

May Barnes, b. m. (Collins) F 2 i i 

Prince, ch. g. (Manson) L I 2 2 

Umpire, b. g. (Eldredge) D 3 3 3 

Time — i :I3, i :I4, i :i4. 

Class B, pacing. 

Go See, b. g. (Eldredge) D i i 

General Fiske, b. g. (Croft) F 2 2 

Lady Brazilian, g. m. (Gibbons) Q 3 3 

Time — l :I3 1-2. I :lo 1-2. 



Class C, trotting. 
Billy Ross, b. g. (Bailey and Furbush) D.. 3 I I 

.Owning Boy, b. g. (McGovern) L i 2 2 

Tower Boy, b. g. (Pero) F 233 

Time — 1:121-2, 1:12, 1:111-4. 

Class D, pacing. 

Belle Park. b. m. (Gibbons) Q 2 i i 

Dr. Band, b. g. (Richardson) D i 3 2 

Charlena, b. m. (Blaney) L 3 2 3 

Time— I :li, i :I4 1-2, i ;ii i-4- 

Class E, trotting. 

Forrest W., br. g. (Cokeley) L Walk-over 

Time— I :i0 3-4, i ;il. 

Class F, pacing. 

Reliance, b. g. (Burke) L i i 

Cascade, gr. g. (Coakley) D 3 2 

Bonnie Belle, ch. m. (Rideout) F 2 3 

Time — i :o8 3-4, I :o7. 

Class G, trotting. 

Nancy Nelson, ch. m. (Small) L i i 

Louise G., b. m. (Bailey) D 2 2 

Time — i :09, i :09. 

Class H, trotting. 

General, b. g. (Lord) L i i 

Oleander, b. g. (Brackett) Q 2 2 

Lord Quex, b. g. (Ralston) F 3 3 

Altro L., blk. g. (Coakley) D 4 4 

Time — i :I2, 1:12. 

Class I. trotting. 

Croesus, b. g. ( Phillips ) L 2 I i 

Clown Prince, ch. g. (Coakley) D I 2 2 

Time — i :09. i :li. I :07. 

Class J. pacing. 

Directumwood, b. g. (Eldredge) D I I 

Lady Laurin. b. m. (Young) L 2 2 

Time — i :o6 1-2, i :o8 1-2. 

Class K, pacing. 

Edith R., ch. m. (Rideout) F I I 

.\intree. b, g. (Bailey and Furbush) D 2 2 

Time — i :ii, i :07 1-4. 

Class L. pacing. 

Gagnaunt, ro. g. (Jameson) F 2 i i 

B. S. Dillon, ch. g. (Ralston) D i 3 2 

Chesterhallis, br. g. (Gibbons) Q 323 

Time — i :o8, i :07 3-4, I :07 1-2. 



W-\kefield-Re.\dixg P.\rk, August 21, 1909 
Class A, pacing. 

Go See, b. g. (A. S. Gushee) D 2 i i 

General Fiske, b. g. (W. W. Croft) F i 2 2 

Charlena. b. m. (C. C. Blaney) L 3 3 4 

.\da B., b. m. (H. C. Barrows) Q 4 4 3 

Time — 1:071-2, 1:063-4, 1:071-4. 

Class B, trotting. 

Baron Patch, b. g. (W.J.Fitzgerald) D I I 

Autobon. b. g. (G. Davis) F 2 2 

Forrest W., br. g. (George Cokelev) L 3 3 

Oilwood, b. g. (C. H. Bolton) Q." 4 4 

Time — i :i2, i :i0 3-4. 

Class C. pacing. 

Reliance, b. g. (F. M. Burke) L o I I 

Directumwood, b. g. (T. J. Griffin) D o 2 2 

Pat L., ch.g. (E. R. Whitman) F 3 3 3 

Time— I :04 3-4. ' :04 3-4. i :03 1-2. 



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Class D, trotting. 

Nancy Nelson, ch. m. (F. C. Smith) L 2 i i 

Tower Boy, b. g. (M. A. Pero) F i 2 2 

Fred M., ch. g. (D. H. Fowle) Q 3 3 3 

Time — i :ii, i :io, i :io 

Class E, pacing. 

Lady Laurin, b. m. (T. W. Fogg) L i i 

Cascade, br. g. (J. \V. Coakley) D 2 2 

Edith R., ch. m. (H. W. Litchfield) F 3 3 

Time — i :07 1-2, i :o6 1-2. 

Class F. trotting. 

Croesus, br. g. (E. B. Phillips) L i i 

Maxine, b. m. (H. B. Hubbard) Q 3 2 

.\my, b. g. (Paine) F 2 3 

Time — i :i2. i :i4 1-4. 

Class G, pacing. 

Onward March (A. H. Fitch) D i i 

^\■e Lead (M. Healey) F ' 3 2 

Belle Park (J. B. Wilkinson) Q 2 3 

Time — i 107 3-4, i :o8. 

Class H, trotting. 

Altro L., blk. g. (H. C. Thayer) D i i 

Frank L.. b. g. (C. M. Harrison) Q 2 2 

General, b. g. (Levi Lord) L 3 3 

May Barnes, b. m. (E. Collins) F 4 4 

Time — i log 1-2, i :io. 

Class I, pacing. 

Gagnaunt, r. g. (E. H. Kingmond) F i i 

Chesterhallis, br. g. (A. H. Jewett) Q 2 2 

Minola, br. m. ( C. J. Delano) L 3 3 

Time — l 109, l ;lo. 

Class J, trotting. 

Lord Quex, b. g. (W. Corbett) F i i 

Rose Mack, b. m. (F. J. Linnehan) L 2 2 

Oleander, b. g. (E. G. Emmons) Q 3 3 

Ginger, b. g. (P.Buckley) D 4 4 

Time — i :09 1-4. i :o8 1-2. 

Class K, pacing". 

Miss Ormond. b. m. (J. F. Fitzgerald) D i i 

May H., ch. m. (D. H. Fowle) Q 2 2 

Ginger B., b. m. (J. L Brooks) F 4 3 

Bobby B., b. g. (E. B. Phillips) L 3 4 

Time — i :io 1-2, i :o8. 

t 
Class L, trotting. 

Billy Ross, b. g. (H. H. Cook) D i 3 i 

Chazy Belle, b. m. (A. Worthylake) F 2 i 2 

Twin Prince, ch. g. (W. F. Rose) Q 4 2 3 

Clarity Barrymore, b. m. (F.J. Linnehan) L 3 dr 
Time — 1:14, 1:15, 1:15. 

C0MBIN..\TI0N P.\RK, MeDFORD, SePT 25, IQOQ. 

Class A, trotting. 

Autobon, b. g. (Davis) F i i 

Awning Boy, b. g. (McGovern) L 2 3 

Billy Ross, b. g. (Furbush) D 3 2 

Time— I :i3 3-4, i :i3 1-2, i :I4. 

Class B, trotting. 

Ginger B., b. m. (Forshner) F i 3 i 

Billy C, b. g. (Page) L 3 i 3 

Go See., b. g. (Beane) D 2 2 2 

Time — 1:10, 1:13 1-2. i :ii 1-2. 



Class C, trotting. 

Baron Patch, b. g. (Fitzgerald) D i 3 i 

General, b. g. (Lord) L 2 i 2 

Tower Boy, b. g. (Pero) F 3 2 3 

Time — i :I2, i :I2 1-2, i -.13. 

Class D. trotting. 

The Jap, wh. g. (Furbush) D i i 

Am}', b. m. (Paine) F 2 2 

Maxine, b. m. (Gibbons) Q 3 3 

Time— I :i5 1-4, i :I5 3-4. 

Class E, pacing 

Miss Ormond, b. m. (Crowley) D i i 

Edith R., ch. m. (Rideout) F 2 2 

Wildlock. b. g. (Spofford) L 3 3 

Chesterhallis, b. g. (Gibbons) Q 4 4 

Time — I :o8, i :07. 

Class F. trotting. 

Tom Phair, br. h. (Forshner) F i i 

Shila, b. m. (Page) L 2 2 

Time — i :io, i :o8 1-2. 

Class G. trotting. 

Rose Mack, b. m. (Page) L i i 

Kitty Giltner. b. m. (Forshner) F 2 2 

Time — i :i2, i ;ii 3-4. 

Class H, pacing. 

Directumwood, b. g. (Griffin) D i i 

Dr. Ware, b. g. (Mason) L 3 2 

Major M., b. g. (Rideout) F 2 3 

Time — i :07 1-4, i :o7. 

Class I, pacing. 

My Star, ch. g. ( Hickey ) D i i 

Independence, b. g. (Nelson) F 2 2 

Time — i :I7 1-4. i 113. 

Class J. pacing. 

Louise G.. b. m. (Furbush) D i i 

The Welchman, b. g. (Forshner) F 2 2 

Time — i :i2 3-4, i ;12 1-2. 

Class K, trotting. 

Croesus, br. g. (Phillips) L i i 

Billv J., b. g. (Sanborn) F 2 2 

Carl C, b. g. (Hickey) D 3 3 

Time— I :07 3-4, i ;o9 3-4. 

Class L, pacing. 

Louise E., b. m. (l~ox) F i i 

Lady Laurin. b. m. (Page) L 2 2 

Time — i :07 3-4. i :o8. 

Class M. pacing (for Dorchester Driving Club 
horses). 

Bud Posey, b. g. (Richardson) i i i 

Rosemont, b. m. (Eldredge) 223 

Budweiser. b. g. (Barnard) 3 3 2 

Billy K., gr. g ( Bleiler ) 4 4 4 

Time — i :io 3-4. i :09, i :ii. 

Class N, pacing (for Dorchester Driving club 
horses). 

Helgamite, b. m. (Bellows) i i 2 2 i 

Fred R.. b. g. (Richardson) 2 2 i i 2 

Time — 1:21, 1:18, 1:18, 1:191-2, 1:221-4. 



Metropolitan Earns Title of Champion 
Driving Club of New England 



DURING the Winter of iyio over- 
tures were made to the Aletro- 
poHtan Driving Club, by the other 
(greater Boston driving clubs that 
were in the interclub series of 
matinees the year before, to have the Met- 
ropolitan join them in a series to take place 
the coming Summer. This was finally agreed 
upon, with the condition that all of the meets 
take place over Combination Park, and to be 
six in number. It was further agreed that the 
points made in the races would be as follows : 
First horse, five points; second horse, three 
points; third horse, two points; and fourth 
horse, one point. In case of two or more 
horses standing equal in the summary at the 
conclusion of the race, the one standing the 
best in final heat to receive the additional 
point and preceding position in the summary. 
In the early Spring months there was a 
great hustle between the members of the five 
clubs to secure material that would prove of 
benefit to their respective organizations in 
carrying away the elegant silver cup that was 
to be given to the club winning the most 



points in the series. Thus, wlicn the matinee 
season opened, or later during the matinees, 
the following galaxy of equine stars w-ere 
among those entered in the events. Trotters — 
Chase, 2:07 1-4; Mack Mack, 2:08; Monroe, 
2:10 1-2: Peter -Sterling, 2:11 1-2; Ralph 
Wick, 2:13 1-4; Dodie K.. 2:13 1-2: The 
.Sailorman, 2:14 1-4; and Hawkins, 2:16 1-4. 
While Croesus. 2:i(j 1-2, and Dehesia. 
2:2;^ 1-4, did not have as fast a record a;^ 
some of the others, yet they had a great deal 
of speed, and their admirable way of trotting 
gained for them general admiration from the 
spectators. Pacers — (Gallagher, 2:03 1-2; Cas- 
cade, 2:06 1-2; Edwin S., 2:08; Frank S., 
2:08 1-4; Louise (i., 2 ;o8 1-2; Phoebon \V., 
2:08 3-4; Billy Patten, 2:09 1-4: Easter 
Direct, 2:09 1-2; Reliance, 2:11 1-4: Young 
Chimes. 2:11 1-2; .\intree. 2.10 3-4; Dean 
Swift, 2:12 1-4; johnny Smoker, 2:12 1-2; 
Lady Laurin, 2:13 1-2: Charley King, 
2:14 1-4: and Decima Deane, 2:14 1-4. 

The first matinee was held on July <). and 
the honors for the afternoon went to Lynn 
with 30 points, Fellsway getting 24, Metropol- 




C;HARLEY king, 2:14 1-4 
Winner of Four Races in Five Starts in Big Interclub Meets of 1910. 
by Adna T. Wheelock 



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itan 22, Dorchester 21, and Quannapowitt last 
with 14 points. The fastest event was won by 
Charley King, owned by A. T. Wheelock of 
Dorchester, who paced his second heat in 
I :04 1-2. The next best performance by the 
pacers was made by Reliance, from the Lynn 
Club, beating a fast field, the last heat, in i :o5. 
For the trotters, The Sailorman, owned by 
William La Croix of the Lynn Club, did sur- 
prisingly well by stepping two heats in i :o5. 
Dehesia, the property of Thomas Brady of the 
Quannapowitt Club, marched ofi with a heat in 
I -.O/ ; Billy F., from Fellsway, in i 107, and 
Willie John, owned by W. J. Ford of Dor- 
chester, his second heat in i :o6 1-2. 

The second matinee came on July 16, and, 
after five races had been decided, rain called 
the balance of the program off. The Fellsway 
and Quannapowitt Clubs were tied with 13 
points each, Dorchester got 11, Lynn 9, 
and Metropolitan 8. In the fast classes Re- 
liance won the pace quite handily and Haw- 
kins the trot. 

There was some genuine horse racing at the 
third matinee of interclub meets at Combina- 
tion Park, on July 23, the honors going to the 
Metropolitan Club with 29 points, Lynn and 
Dorchester getting 22 each, and Fellsway and 
Quannapowitt 18. 

Reliance won the feature event of the day, 
though Cascade captured the first and fastest 
heat in i 104. Louise G. reeled off a heat in 
I :o5 in her event, as did Aintree in his class. 
The best work by the trotters was The Sailor- 
man winning his heat in i :o5 1-4, Rose Mack 
a heat in i :o6, and Dehesia one in I -.07. 

The fourth weekly matinee of the interclub 
program was on August 6, and resulted in the 
Metropolitan getting 30 points, the most of 
any club, Fellsway 2/ points, while Dorches- 
ter earned 26, Lynn 19, and Quannapowitt 6. 
This put the Mets in the lead for the series. 

A new factor entered the field in the fast 
pacing mare, Easter Direct, who appeared 
against Reliance and others of that class, and 
made good the promise of her friends in the 
Fellsway Club by capturing the event in 
straight heats, the second one in i 104 3-4. The 
Mets had out a pretty slick one, too, in Edwin 
S., who reeled off his second heat in 1 105, the 
same time that was made by Lady Laurin in 
her class. 

But if there was plenty of fun in the pacing 
events, then the trotting classes were regular 
hurrahs in the way they fairly burned up the 
track. Chase, the trotting gelding that had 
been raced by C. H. Belledeu so successfully 
on the Charles River Speedway, had been 
purchased by Chauncy Sears of Fall River, 
and made his debut in Class F against The 



Sailorman and Mack Mack. The last named 
gelding George Graves had been racing in 
matinees over the Readville track under the 
colors of the Boston Driving Club. Whea the 
smoke of the battle cleared in this event, it 
was found that Chase headed the summary 
with two heats in the remarkable time of 
I :o3 3-4, I :04 1-2. 

The next interclub matinee came on Au- 
gust 13, and the largest crowd of the season 
was attracted by the announcement that the 
celebrated pacer, Gallagher, 2:03 1-2, had 
been purchased by J. O. Reay and E. F. 
Adams, of the Metropolitan Club, and was 
going to make his appearance in Class D 
against the stars of the interclub meets. Bob 
Thompson drove the gelding, and while he did 
not have any picnic, yet the judges saw him 
first at the wire by a margin of a half-length 
each time, and, in winning these heats, he 
lowered the track record to I :o2 1-4, and 
came back in his second heat in i 103 1-4. 
Easter Direct drove him out in the first in- 
stance, and Reliance got the place the next 
time. 

A very close second to Gallagher in secur- 
ing honors of the day were Lady Laurin and 
Louise G., the latter stepping off the first heat 
in 1 :03 3-4, and was then barely beaten by 
Lady Laurin in i :o3 1-4 and i :04 1-2. An- 
other whirlwind pacer to take part was Billy 
Patten, who was out to take the measure of 
Edwin S., but just fell short, though making 
the winner tramp the last heat in i 104 1-2. 

Then to show there was no hard feeling, 
Charley King and Billy Baggs hooked up in 
a tremendous battle, Billy getting the first 
heat in 1 105. After that Charley King had all 
he could do to stall oft' Pointer Patchen, the 
final heat being in i :o4 1-2. 

Remembering the decision of the previous 
week, (George Graves was out with blood in 
his eye to take the measure of Chase with his 
Mack Mack. The first heat went to Chase in 
I :o6 3-4, The Sailorman being the contender. 
Then Mack Mack came to life and annexed 
the second one in i :o6 1-2, just nipping Tlie 
Sailorman a few feet from the wire. The 
third heat was another duel between these 
two, Mack Mack barely getting the verdict, in 
the fast time of i :o4. 

Ralph Wick took part in this interclub 
entertainment for the first time, he being en- 
tered in Class G. and the champion half-mile 
campaigner of the world won easily, turning 
the track the last heat in i :o6. Geiger, from 
the Metropolitan, in his event reeled off a tri]) 
in I :o(). Rose Mack and Monroe each did a 
heat in i :o6 1-4, and Willie John kept busy 



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the second heat of his race by negotiating it in 
I :o6 1-2. 

The points for this session stood : Met- 
ropohtan 31. Fellsway 27, Lynn 22, Dorches- 
ter 21, and Quannapowitt 6. 

The final interckib meet was held at Com- 
bination Park on August 20, and the result 
of the afternoon's races gave Lynn 28 points, 
Fellsway 26, Metropolitan 25, Dorchester 21, 
and Quannapowitt 11. The Metropolitan won 
the handsome silver cup, the trophy for the 
club winning the most points in the series, the 
score showing 145 for the Charles River 
Speedway horsemen, 135 for Fellswax, 130 
for Lynn, 122 for Dorchester, and 68 for 
Quannapowitt. With the cup went the honor 
of the champion driving club of New Eng- 
land. 

The trotters held the center of the stage in 
this matinee, and to square things as they 
should be, George Moore of Lynn, driving 
William La Croix's good trotter, The Sailor- 
man, headed the summary over his bitter 
rivals. Mack Mack, Chase, etc. The last heat 
of his event was in i :o3 3-4, just equaling 
the trotting record of the track, made by 
Chase on August 6. 

Reliance and Louise G. were right on edge 
in their pacing race, and, to the surprise of 
all, the mare made Reliance pace in i :oi 1-2 
the last heat of the event, which lowered the 
record of the track, recently made by Galla- 
gher. Other notable features were Edwin S. 
winning in I :04 1-4, Billy Patten in 1 104 1-2, 
and Charley King in I 104 1-2. 

POINTS WON IN INTERCLUB MEETS. 

CLUBS Mcts. Fells. Lynn Dor. Quann. 

First Matinee .... 22 24 30 21 14 

Second Matinee .. 8 13 11 i.? 

Third Matinee .... 29 18 22 22 18 

Fourth Matinee ..30 2; ig 26 6 

Fifth Matinee .... 31 2y 22 21 6 

Sixth Matinee 25 26 28 21 11 

Total Points ... 145 135 130 122 68 

P^iRST M.\Ti.NEE. July 9. 1910. 
Combination Park, Medford, Class A, Pacing. 

Dr. Ware, b. g. (Charles Mason) L 2 i i 

Ella Hal, b.m. (C. N. Clough) F i 5 5 

Kremella, b. g. (A. M. Johnson) D 3 4 2 

Dean Swift, br. g. ( T. Trnut )M 4 2 ? 

Ada B., b. m. (H. C. Barrows) Q 5 3 4 

Time — 1 :07 1-2, i :o8 1-4, i -07. 

Class B. trotting. 

Geiger, blk. g. (A. J. Furbush ) M t : 

Awning Boy, b. g. (Charles McGovern) L 2 3 

Bonnie Patchen, br. g. (H. Buckner) D 4 2 

Kitty McGregor, ch. m. (W. Patten) F 3 5 

General C. br. g. (W. F. Gibbons) Q 5 4 

Time — i :o9 1-2, i .09 1-4. 



Class C, pacing. 

Outcast, g. m. (W. F. Sprague) F i I 

Phoebon W., br. g. (A. C. Furbush) M 2 2 

Billy Bags, ro. g. (M. F. Clarke) Q 3 3 

Mi.xedwood. blk. g. (M. J. Healy) L 4 4 

Onward March, b. g. (F. H. Bellows) D 5 5 

Time — i :o6, i :o6 3-4. 

Class D. trotting. 

Billy F., b. g. (L. F. Sanborn) F i I 

Rose Mack, b. m. (F. J. Linnehan) L 2 2 

Louise G.. b. m. (W. J. Furbush) M 3 3 

Oleander, b. g. (E. G. Emmons) Q 4 4 

Baron Patch, b. g. (W. J. Fitzgerald) D 5 S 

Time — I :o7, I :07 1-2. 

Class E, pacing. 

Reliance, b. g. (E. B. Phillips) L i i 

.\intree, b. g. (W. W. Croft) F 2 2 

Ginger B., b, m. (W. B. Pierce) Q 3 3 

Cascade, br. g, (T. J. Griffin) D 3 4 

Tony D.. g. g. ( E. S. .\dams) M 4 dr 

Time — i :o5 1-2, i :05. 

Class F, trotting. 

Willie John, br. g. (J. W. Ford) D I I 

Croesus, br. g. (E. B. Phillips) L 2 2 

Major Dillard, gr. g. (J. Trout) M 3 3 

Maud Bland, b. m. (W. F. Gibbons) Q 4 4 

Time — i :o7, i :o6 1-2. 

Class G, pacing. 

Billy C. b. g. (W. C. Clark) L 2 i i 

Johnny Smoker, blk. g. (H. B. Ralston) M i 5 2 

Prairie Queen, h. m. (J. R. Trazier) D.... 5 2 3 

Harrv Wilkes, b. g. (Fred Rideout) F ? 3 4 

Maud F., blk. m. (D. Leary) Q 4 4 5 

Time — J :g6 1-2, i :o8, i ;o6. 

Class H, trotting. 

The Sailorman, b. g. (William La Croix) L.. i i 

\'ictor C, g. g. (J. Trout) M 2 3 

Fred C. b. g. (L. F. Sanborn) F 4 2 

Carl C, b. g. (P. O'Hearn) D 3 4 

Crown Prince, ch. g. (G. A. Cowdrey) Q.... 5 5 
Time — i :05, i :05. 

Class I. pacing. 

Charley King, blk. g. (A. T. Wheelock) D. . i i 

Emily, b. m. (J. O. Reay) M 4 2 

F. E. R., b. g. (W. F. Gibbons) Q 2 4 

Decima Deane, b. m. (F. E. Morrison) F.... 3 3 

Lady Laurin, br, m. (F. J. Linnehan) L 5 5 

Time — I :o6 1-2, i :04 1-2. 

Class J, trotting. 

Dehesia, b. m. (Thomas Brady) Q i i 

Klondyke, br. g. (M. McDermott ) D 2 2 

Dodie K., blk. m. (W. J. McDonald) M.... 4 3 

Hawkins, blk. g, (E. H. Merrow) F 3 4 

Peter Sterling, br. g. (J. Cullen) L 5 5 

Time — i :a8, i :o7. 

Second M.^tinee, July 16, 1910. 
Combination Park. Medford, Class A, trotting. 

Hawkins, blk. g. (E. H. Merrow) F i i 

Klondyke. br. g. (M. McDermott) D 4 2 

Dehesia, b. m. (T. F. Brady) Q 2 4 

Dodie K.. blk. m. (W. J. McDonald) M 3 3 

Time — 1 :07 1-2. i :o6 1-4. 

Class B, pacing. 

Kremella, b. g. (A. M. Johnson) D I i 

Dr. Ware, b. g. (Charles Mason) L 3 2 

Ella Hal. b. m. (W. W. Croft) F 2 3 

Harry M.. g. g. (F. Churchill) Q 4 4 

Time — i :o6, i :o6 3-4. 



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Class C, trotting. 

Geiger, blk. g. (A. J. Furbush) M i ^ I 

Isabelle. b. m. (B. W. Weeks) F 2 2 

Baron Patch, b. g. (W. J. Fitzgerald) D 3 3 

Maud Bland, b. m. ( W. F. Gibbons) Q 4 4 

Time — i :o8 i-2, i :o8 i-2. 

Class D, pacing. • 

Billy Baggs, r. g. (M. F. Clark) Q i 3 I 

Decima Deane, b. m. (F. E. Morrison) F. .514 

Dean Swift, br. g. (J. Trout) M 3 2 2 

Billy C, b. g. (W. C. Clark) L 245 

Manila Boy, b. g. (J. W. Wentworth) D.. 4 5 3 
Time^i :o7 1-2, i :o8, i :io 1-2. 

Class F, pacing. 

Reliance, b. g. (E. B. Phillips) L I i 

Ginger B., b. m. (W. B. Pierce) Q 2 2 

Cascade, br. g. (T. J. Griffin) D 3 3 

Tony D., g. g. (E. S. Adams) M 4 dr 

Time — i :os 3-4, i :o6. 

Third Matinee, July 23, 1910. 
Combination Park, Medford, Class A, trotting. 

Dehesia, b. m. (Thomas F. Bradv) Q I i 

Hawkins, blk. g. (E. H. Merrow) F 2 2 

Willie John, br. g. (W. J. Ford) D 3 3 

Time — i :o8, i :o7. 

Class B, pacing. 

Phoebon W., br. g. (A. C. Furbush) M i i 

Billy Baggs, r. g. (M. F. Clark) Q 2 2 

Kremella, b. g. (A.M.Johnson) D 3 4 

Billy C, b. g. (W. C. Clark) L 5 3 

Outcast, g. m. (W. Sprague) F 4 5 

Time — i :o6 1-4, i :o6 1-2. 

Class C, trotting. 

Rose Mack, b. m. (F. J. Linnehan) L i i 

Monroe, b. g. (Dr. Jackson) M 3 2 

Billy J., b.g. (L. F. Sanborn) F 2 3 

Klondyke, br. g. (M. McDermott) D 4 4 

Time — i :o8, i :o6. 

Class D, pacing. 

Reliance, br. g. (E. B. Phillips) L 2 l i 

Cascade, br. g. (T. J. Griffin) D i 2 3 

Ginger B., b. m. (W. B. Pierce) Q 3 5 2 

Miss Cadmus b,.m. (A. C. Furbush ) M 4 3 .=; 

Young Chimes, b. g. (K. Forshner) F.... 5 4 4 
Time— I 104. i 104 3-4, 1 :o5 3-4- 

Class E, trotting. 

The Sailorman. b. g. (William La Croix) L.. 1 l 

Fred C, b. g. (L. F. Sanborn) F 3 2 

Crown Prince, ch. g. (G. A. Cowdrey) Q.... 2 3 

Victor C, g. g. (J. Trout) M 4 4 

Time— I :05 3-4, i :05 1-4. 

Class F, pacing. 

Louise G., b. m. (W. J. Furbush) M i I 

Charley King, blk. g. (A. T. Wheelock) D. ... 2 2 

Ladv Laurin. br. m. (F. J. Linnehan) L.... 3 3 

W. H. B., b. g. (W. H. Bird) Q 4 4 

Time — i :05 1-2, i :o5. 

Class G, trotting. 

Geiger, blk. g. (A. J. Furbush) M 2 i i 

Baron Patch, b. g. (W. J. Fitzgerald) D.. 124 

Marine, b. m. (H. P. Hubbard) Q 4 3 2 

Awning Boy, b. g. (Charles McGovern) L 3 4 3 
Time — i :09 1-2, i .09, I :io. 



Class H, pacing. 

Aintree, b. g. (W. W. Croft) F 2 i i 

lone, b. m. (R. G. Crosby) D i 2 2 

Mixedwood, blk. g. (M. J. Healey) L 3 3 4 

Emily, b. m. (J. O. Reay) M 4 4 3 

Maud F., blk. m. (D. Leary) Q 5 dr 

Time — i :o6. i :05, i :05 1-4. 

Class I, trotting. 

Dodie K., blk. m. ( W. J. McDonald) M i i 

General C, br. g. (W. F. Gibbons) Q 2 2 

Isabelle. b. m. (B. W. Weeks) F 3 3 

Time — 1 :io 1-4, i ;io 1-2. 

Class J. pacing. 

Manila Boy, b. g. (J. W. Wentworth) D i i 

Country Guy, ch. g. (M. Buffington) M 4 2 

Decima Deane, b. m. (F. E. Morrison) F.... 2 4 

Dr. Ware, b. g. (Charles Mason) L 3 3 

Time — i :07 1-4, 1 :07 1-2. 

Fourth M.\tinee, August 6, 1910. 
Combination Park, Medford, Class A, pacing. 

Harry Wilkes, b. g. (F. Rideout) F I 1 

Manila Boy, b. g. (Eldredge) D 2 2 

Dean Swift, b. g. (J. Trout) M 3 3 

Dr. Ware, b. g. (Page) L 4 4 

Ada B., b. m. (H. C. Burrows) Q 5 5 

Time — i :o8, 1 107 3-4. 

Class B, trotting. 

Geiger, blk. g. (Bailey) M i i 

Baron Patch, b. g. (W. J. Fitzgerald) D 2 2 

Awning Boy, b. g. (C. McGovern) L 4 3 

Major Green, ch. g. (Thyng) F 3 4 

General C, br. g. (W. F. Gibbons) Q 5 5 

Time — I :o8 3-4, i :o8 3-4. 

Class C, pacing. 

Easter Direct, b. m. (L. P. Trembley) F.... I i 

Reliance, b. g. (Page) L 2 2 

Ginger B., b. m. (W. B. Pierce) Q 3 3 

Cascade, br. g. (Morgan) D 5 4 

Louise G., b. m. (Bailey) M 4 5 

Time— I :05, i :04 3-4. 

Class D, trotting. 

Hawkins, blk. g. (K. Forshner) F i i 

Rose Mack, b. m. (O'Brien) L 2 2 

Victor C, g. g. (J. Trout) M 4 3 

Dehesia, b. m. (Thomas F. Brady) Q 3 4 

Time — i :07 1-2, i :o6 1-2. 

Class E. pacing. 

Edwin S.,ch. g. (H. H. Reed) M I i 

Outcast, g. m. (W. Sprague) F 2 2 

Kremella. b. g. (A.M.Johnson) D 4 3 

Billy Baggs, r. g. (M. F. Clark) Q 3 5 

Billy C. b. g. ( W. C. Clark) L 5 4 

Time — i :o5 1-2, i :05. 

Class F, trotting. 

Chase, b. g. (Chauncy Sears) M i 1 

The Sailorman, b. g. (William La Croix) L. . 32 

Mack Mack, b. g. (George Graves) F 2 3 

Crown Prince, ch. g. (G. A. Cowdrey) Q.... 4 4 

Carl C, b. g. (P. O'Hearn) D 5 S 

Time — i :03 3-4, I :04 1-2. 

Class G, pacing. 

Lady Laurin, br. m. (James O'Brien) L I I 

Aintree, b. g. ( W. W. Croft) F 2 3 

lone, b. m. (R. G. Crosby) D 4 2 

Phoebon W., br. g. (A. C- Furbush) M 3 4 

W. H. B., b. g. (W. H. Bird) Q 5 5 

Time — i :05 i-4i i :05. 



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Class H, trotting. 

Klondvke, br. g. (M. McDermott) D 3 I I 

Dodie K., blk. m. (W. J. McDonald) M.. 133 

Little Bill, b. g. (A. Jameson) F 2 2 2 

Maxine, b. m. (H. P. Hubbard) Q 4 4 4 

Noble Grand, b. h. (M. Page) L 5 5 5 

Time — 1:081-2, 1:07, 1:061-2. 

Class I, pacing. 

Charley King, blk. g. (A. T. Wheelock) D.. I i 

(Miss Cadmus, b. m. (A. C. Furbush) M.... 3 2 

Mixed wood, blk. g. (M. J. Healey) L 2 4 

Voung Chimes, b. g. (K. Forshner) F 4 3 

Maud F., blk. m. (D. Leary) Q 5 5 

Time — I :o6, I :o6 1-4. 

Class J. trotting. 

Willie John, br. g. (W. J. Ford) D i r 

Billy J., b. g. (L. F. Sanborn) F 3 2 

Monroe, b. g. (Dr. Jackson) M 2 3 

Oleander, b. g. (E. G. Emmons) Q 4 dr 

Time — I :o7, i .oy. 



Fifth Matinee, Ai'gust 13, igio. 
Combination Park, Medford, Class A, trotting. 

Geiger, blk. g. (Thompson) M i i 

Billy J., b. g. (Forshner) F 3 2 

Baron Patch, b. g. (Fitzgerald) D 2 4 

Awning Boy, b. g. (McGovern) L 4 3 

General C, br. g. (Gibbons) Q 5 5 

Time — i :o8 1-2, i :o6. 

Class B, pacing. 

Aintree, b. g. (Forshner) F i i 

Dr. Ware. b. g. (Page) L 4 2 

Dean Swift, b. g. (Trout) M 2 4 

Kremella. b. g. (Eldredge) D 3 3 

Ada B., b. m. (Barrows) Q 5 5 

Time — I :o8 3-4, i ;o6. 

Class C, trotting. 

Mack Mack, b. g, (Graves) F 5 i i 

Chase, b. g. (Babin) M i 5 3 

The Sailorman, b. g. (Moore) L 2 2 2 

Crown Prince, ch. g. (Gibbons) Q 3 3 4 

Carl C, b. g.'(O'Donnell) D 4 4 5 

Time — 1:063-4, 1:061-2, 1:04. 

Class D, pacing. 

Gallagher, b. g. (Thompson) M i i 

Reliance, b. g. (Page) L 3 2 

Easter Direct, b. m. (Trembley) F 2 4 

Ginger B., b, m. (Gibbons) Q 4 3 

Cascade, br. g. (Kinsley) D 5 5 

Time — i :02 1-4, i :03 1-4. 

Class E, trotting. 

Rose Mack, b. m. (O'Brien) L 2 i 2 i 

Hawkins, blk. g. (Forshner) F 4 2 i 3 

Monroe, b. g. (Bailey) M i 4 4 2 

Dehesia, b. m. (Brady) Q 3 3 3 dr 

Time — i :o6 1-4, i :o6 1-4, i :o6 3-4, i :o6 1-2, 

Class F, pacing. 

Lady Laurin, br. m. (O'Brien) L 2 i 1 

Louise G., b. m. ( Bailey) M i 2 2 

Frank S.. br. g. (Forshner) F 4 3 3 

B. S. Dillon, ch. g. (Eldredge) D 3 4 4 

Maud F.. blk. m. (Leary) Q 5 5 dr 

Time — 1:033-4, 1:031-4, 1:041-2. 



Class G, trotting. 

Ralph Wick, b. g. (Paige) D i 3 1 

Octavia, b. g. (Dorr) M 4 i 2 

Derby Directly, br. g. (Carpenter) L 2 2 3 

Fancy Frank, blk. g. (Trembley) V 3 4 5 

Maxine, b. m. (Gibbons) Q 5 5 4 

Time — i :oy 3-4, I :07 1-2, I :o6. 

Class H, pacing. 

Edwin S., ch. g. (Bailey) M I i 

Billy Patten, b. g. (O'Neil) F 3 2 

lone, b. m. (Eldredge) D 2 5 

Mixedwood, blk. g. (Healey) L 4 3 

Harry M., g. g. (Churchill) Q 5 4 

Time — i :04 1-2, I :04 1-2. 

Class I, trotting. 

Willie John, b. g. (Ford) D 4 I i 

Little Bill, b. g. (Ralston) F i 3 2 

\4ctor C, g. g. (Trout) M 2 2 3 

Barronette, blk. g. (Gibbons) Q 3 4 4 

Noble Grand, br. h, (Page) L 5 5 5 

Time — i :o8 3-4, i :o6 1-2, i :c~. 

Class J, pacing. 

Charley King, blk. g. (Wheelock) D 3 i i 

Billy Baggs, r. g. (Clark) Q i 5 5 

Pointer Patchen, ch. g. (Sullivan) F 4 3 2 

Billy C, b. g. (Clark) L 523 

Miss Cadmus, b. m. (Furbush) M 2 4 4 

Time — I :05, i :04 1-4, i :04 1-2. 



Sixth Matinee, August 20, 1910. 
Combination Park, Medford, Class A, trotting. 

Little Bill. b. g. (A.Jameson) F i i 

Alfredi, b. h. (J. Wells) L 2 2 

Geiger, blk. g. (A. J. Furbush ) 3 3 

Baron Patch, b. g. (W. J. Fitzgerald) D 5 4 

Barronette, blk. g. (W. M. Christie) Q 4 5 

Time — i :09, i :o8. 

Class B. pacing. 

Edwin S., ch. g. (H. H. Reed) M i i 

Frank S., br. g. (J. Sullivan) F 3 2 

Lady Laurin, br. m. (F. J. Linnehan) L.... 2 3 

B. S. Dillon, ch. g. (F. A. Winslow) D 5 4 

Maud F., blk. m. (D. Leary) Q 4 5 

Time — i :04 1-4, i :04 1-2. 

Class C, trotting. 

The Sailorman, b. g. (William La Croix) L.. 11 

Mack Mack, b. g. (George Graves) F 2 2 

Crown Prince, ch. g. (G. A. Cowdrey) Q.... 3 4 

Chase, b. g. (Chauncy Sears) M 5 3 

Carl C, b. g. (P. O'Hearn) D 4 5 

Time— I :o5, i :o3 3-4- 

Class D, pacing. 

Billy Patten, b. g. (W. O'Neil) F i i 

Barbara D., ch. m. (A. J. Furbush) M 3 2 

Captain Sampson, g. g. (F. M. Burke) L.... 2 3 

Ada B., b. m. (H. C. Barrows) Q 4 4 

irime — I :o6 1-4, i :04 1-2. 

Class E, trotting. 

Monroe, b. g. (Dr. Jackson) M i i 

Rose Mack, b. m. (F. J. Linnehan) L 3 2 

Dehesia, b. m. (T. F. Brady) Q 2 3 

Remsen Robinson, b. g. (J. Miller) F 4 4 

Time — l :07 1-2, i :07. 



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Class F, pacing. 

Reliance, b. g. (E. B. Phillips) L i i 

Louise G.. b. m. (W. J. Furbush) M 2 2 

Ginger B.. b. m. (W. B. Pierce) Q 3 3 

Cascade, br. g. (T. J. Griffin) D 4 4 

Time— I :03 i-2, I :oi i-2. . 

Class G, pacing. 

Ralph Wick, b. g. (Peter Allen) D i i 

Hawkins, blk. g. (E. H. Merrow) F 3 2 

Derby Directly, br. g. (F. M. Burke) L 2 3 

Maxine, b. m. (H. P. Hubbard) Q 4 4 

Octavia, b. g. (H.Wood) M 5 5 

Time— I :o7 3-4, i :o7. 



Class H, pacing 
Mixed wood, blk. 
Manila Boy, b. g 



y. (M. J. Healey) L i I 

(J. W. Went worth) D.... 2 2 



Miss Cadmus, b. m. (A. C. Furbush) M 3 3 

Aintree. b. g. (W. W. Croft) F 4 4 

Time — i :o6 1-2, i :o6 1-2. 

Class I. trotting. 

Willie John, b. g. (W. J. Ford) D i I 

Victor C. g. g. (J. Trout) M 2 2 

Harry Brino, br. g. (Thompson and Brooks) F 3 3 

General C, br. g. (W. F. Gibbons) Q 4 4 

Time — i ;o6 3-4, i :o6 1-2 

Class J. pacing. 

Charley King, b. g. (A. T. Wheelock) D i I 

Pointer Patchen. ch. g. (J. Sullivan) F 3 2 

Billv Baggs, r. g. (M. F. Clark) Q 2 4 

Billy C, b. g. (W. C. Clark) L 5 3 

Leanone. blk. m. (P. Smith) M 4 S 

Time — i :o6, i :04i-2. 



Kenoza Club Defeats Fellsways by 
Taking Four of the Races 



Ox September 30, 191 1, the Ke- 
noza Driving Club of Haverhill 
met the Fellsway Club on the 
home grounds of the latter, at 
Combination Park, in an inter- 
club meet, which resulted in the visi- 
tors taking four of the seven races, al- 
though the Fellsways succeeded in capturing 
live of the seven red ribbons. The track was 
heavy from recent rains, which made the time 
slow. 

The feature event was the meeting of Wilkes 
Heart, 2:061-4, owned by Warren Kimball, 
of Haverhill, Dr. Chase, 2:101-4, owned by 
L. F. Sanborn, and Demarest, 2:061-4, the 
property of W. J. McDonald, the last two 
named racing under the colors of the Fells- 
way. Wilkes Heart reeled off the race in 
straight heats, driven out by Dr. Chase, and 
made the fastest time of the afternoon, 
I :o8 1-2, I :o9. The fastest pacing event was 
won by Simons, from the stable of A. Wallace, 
of Haverhill, his principal opposition coming 
from Decima Deane, the property of Frank 
Morrison of the Fellsway Club. The sum- 
mary : 

Combination Park, Medford, Sept. 30, 191 1. — Class 
A, trotting. 

Wilkes Heart, b. g. (W. Kimball) H i i 

Dr. Chase, ch. g. (L. F. Sanborn) F 2 2 

Demarest, b. g. (W. J. McDonald) F 3 3 

Snowbird, gr. g. (P. Doherty) H 4 4 

Time — i :o8 1-2, i :o9. 



Class B, trotting. 

La Buda, b. m. (McDonald) F 2 i 1 

Dehesia. b. m. (T. F. Brady) F i 2 2 

Belle Chime, b. m. (E. C. Miller) H 3 3 3 

Time— I :I2 1-2, i :ii 3-4, i :I2. 

Class C, trotting and pacing. 

Watchman, b. g. (Welch) F i 1 

Go See. b. g. (Fitzgerald) F 2 2 

Mascal, b. g. (R. P. Wood) H 3 3 

Time — 1:161-4, 1:143-4. 

Class D, pacing. 

Richard Griffin, b. g. (Minkler) F i i 

Epping Boy, gr. g. (J. Dugan)_ H 2 2 

Johnny D.,' b. g. (G. A. Leathers) H 4 3 

Maud C, b. m. (Cromwell) H 3 4 

Time — i :I3 1-2, I :I4. 

Class E, pacing. 

Dan S., b. g. (Fred Rowe) H i i 

Paul Boone, b. g. (J. Fuller) H 2 2 

Independence, ch. g. (F. Brown) F 3 3 

Doctor, b. g. (Twombly) F 4 4 

Time — i :I2 1-2, i :i3. 

Class F, pacing. 

Simons, b. g. (A.Wallace) H I I 

Decima Deane. b. m. (Morrison) F 2 2 

Joe Harris, b. g. (Miller) H 4 3 

Bessie H., bl. m. (Hartz) F 3 4 

Time — i :il, i :I2. 

Class G, pacing. 

Upper Dyke, b. g. (H. W. Watson) H i 1 

Color Bearer, b. g. (W. Gowan) F 2 2 

Time — i :i4, I :I2. 



Facts and Anecdotes 

of 

Prominent Events 

of the Turf 




ARTHUR H. PARKER 
Breeder of the World's Champion Trotter-- Uhlan, 1:58 



Uhlan, the World's Champion Trotter, 
His Breeder and His Trainer 




I'.v Edward E. Cogswcl 



For sczrii years Mr. Cogsz^'cll i^'as Turf Edi- 
tor of the Boston Traveler, and for eight years 
held a similar position on the Boston American. 
He zvas Nezi' England correspondent for the 
Horse Reziezi', Trotter and Pacer, and the Asso- 
ciated Press during these years. Before taking 
lip iieii'spaper zvork Mr. Cogszvel! conducted a 
public training stable at Beacon Park, at Mystic 
Park and in the employ of such noted breeders 
as B. D. U'hitcomb. U\ H. Moody. Com. George 
Perkins, etc.. zcinning one season the John B. 
Clarke prize in lozvering all Nezc Hampshire 
records by a trotter bred in the Granite State. 
This he accomplished zt'ith the mare Thetis. Mr. 
Cogszvell was born in Roxbury. Mass., and is en- 
rolled as an Honorary Member in the Metro- 
politan. Dorchester, and Ecllszcay Priz'iiig Clubs. 



UHLAX, I :58, the fastest trotter in 
the world, as is very well known, 
was bred by Arthur H. Parker, 
owner of the Shawsheen River 
Stock Farm, I'.edford, Alass. 
In the Fall of 1900 Mr. Parker purchased 
from Dr. H. L. Alderman, of Lexington, 
Alass., the mare Blonde, by Sir Walter, Jr., 
2:18 1-4, and another mare, for which he paid 
$450 for the pair. In the Spring of 1901 
Blonde was bred to Bingen, 2 :o6 1-4, the 
produce being Lexington, that afterwards took 
a matinee record of 2:15 1-4. The latter being 
a small and disapi>ointing foal, Mr. Parker 
didn't breed Blonde in 1902, but Lexington 
showed so much promise when a yearling that 
he bred her back to Bingen in the Spring of 
1903. and the following year she produced 
Uhlan. 

Ed. McGrath, trainer at Shawsheen Farm, 
did nothing with Uhlan until the Fall of 1905. 
and then started working him to cart, but the 
only gait he seemed to have was a saddle gait, 
and it took ^IcGrath two weeks to get him 
out of it, and the only way he could do it was 
to run him out. He kept at him this way until 
he finally got him on the trot. Uhlan was 
driven on the snow that Winter, and on April 
28. the following Spring, won a race over the 
farm track of half-mile heats in i :22 1-2, and 
two weeks later he worked a half mile in i :i7. 
He was then turned loose for ten weeks. 
Then, taken up and driven a little and sent to 



Readville, where, right off, he stepped a mile 
in 2:28, one-quarter in 35 seconds. 

The following Winter, 1906 and '07. Mr. 
Parker took him over to Charles River Speed- 
way, where he most favorably impressed a 
great many people who saw him step. Mr. 
Parker offered him for sale for $1,500, but 
found no takers. Early in May, he started in 
a race of half-mile heats against aged horses 
over the farm track, winning in i :ii 1-2, I :iO, 
and 1:12. Mr. Parker took him to Readville 
early in July, and started him in three mati- 
nees of the Gentlemen's Driving Club, winning 
all in straight heats, one in 2:21 1-4. 

Charles Sanders, of Salem, Mass., was 
favorably impressed by the colt's performance, 
and asked Mr. Parker to put a price on him, 
and ]\lr. Parker named $2,500. Two or three 
clays later Mr. Parker worked Uhlan a mile 
for ^Ir. Sanders in 2:20. and repeated in 
2:161-4. Mr. Sanders bought him at once, 
and the following week drove him a mile to 
wagon in a winning race in 2:13 3-4. 

Uhlan's racing career in iyo8, as a four- 
year-old, was under the charge of Robert 
Proctor, the well known Readville track 
trainer and driver, who won with the noted 
gelding all the races with the exception of one. 
taking a record of 2:07 1-4. 

The season of 1909 Trainer Proctor had 
Uhlan in rare condition, as at the Cleveland 
track, he made Hamburg Belle establish a 
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2:01 1-4. in order to beat him. The race was 
apparently what Uhlan wanted to shape him 
up. as at Readville, he turned the 
tables on the mare, and the result of the 
race caused C. K. G. Billings, the multi-mil- 
lionaire of Chicago, 111., to buy Uhlan from 
Mr. Sanders for $35,000. With the change 
of ownership the horse was taken from Mr. 
Proctor and given in charge of Mr. Billings' 
trainer, Charles Tanner, who the following 
year gave him a record of i 158 3-4. Before 
retiring him from the turf, Mr. Tanner suc- 
ceeded in still further reducing Uhlan's rec- 
ord by giving him a mark of i 158, in the sea- 
son of 1912. 

Mr. Tanner, who had the handling of 
the world's greatest trotter in all of his 
record breaking heats, and even toured Eu- 
rope with him, even so far as the distant land 
of Russia, exhibiting him before the crown 
heads of the European countries, has fre- 
quently given Mr. Proctor great credit for 
the condition that Uhlan was in when received 
by him, and the marvelous performances 
which he afterwards made. It is due to Mr. 
Proctor that we quote what Mr. Tanner has 
said, as follows : 

"I want to pay Proctor the compliment of 
saying that the condition in which Uhlan then 
was, considering what had been done with 
him, was the best possible evidence of the 
skill with which he had been prepared and 
trained. While it was reserved for me to 
make him a true two-minute trotter, Proctor 
had already demonstrated that he was close 
to one in the Randall track race in which, 
trotting outside Hamburg Belle all the way, 
he had finished at her throatlatch in 2:01 1-4 
— which, all things considered, was nearly, if 
not fully, equal to a dress parade mile in two 
minutes, with everything in his favor. 

"He came into my hands in absolutely per- 
fect physical condition. There was not a 
pimple visible upon his legs, he was stout and 
fresh, carrying as much or more flesh than 
when I first saw him weeks before, and he 
had all his 'whizz.' His manners also testified 
to the care with which he had been educated. 
In public his deportment has always been so 
good that few people, perhaps, have any idea 
how liighly organized he really is. 

"I hardly need to say that any horse which 
trots in two minutes must be keyed high, but 
that is no reason why they should not have 
good manners. It is easy to render them bad- 
mannered, however, and Uhlan could have 
been spoiled early in his career, had he not 
been handled judiciously. He is not only high- 
strung, with a decided will of his own, but he 
IS also a very wise horse — I have come in con- 



tact with few as brainy and that had as much 
true individuality. 

"That I found him so tractable I think one 
of the most creditable things in connection 
with his development and something upon 
which Proctor can justly pride himself. 

"It was on Wednesday that Uhlan was 
bought and I shipped him to the Randall 
track at once, for there was to be a matinee 
there the next Saturday and Mr. Billings was 
coming on from New York to take his first 
drive behind him. This being the case. I asked 
Proctor to be on hand also, in order that he 
might "put us next' to the gelding's pecul- 
iarities, which he did exhaustively, taking 
great pains to explain everything which he 
thought would be essential for us to know. 

"The day in question proved a very un- 
pleasant one, cold and raw, with a slow track. 
In consequence, Mr. Billings did little more 
than jog Uhlan, driving him a mile in 
2:14 3-4, to wagon, only, with the last quarter 
in 30 3-4S., after Proctor had driven him a 
mile to sulky in 2:05 1-2, the last half in 
I :oi 1-2, which he did so easily that Mr. Bil- 
lings was much pleased with him. 

"About his shoeing. It has already been 
published that I made some quite radical 
changes in this from the methods employed 
by Proctor, so I may as well say that I did, 
but in doing so I do not want to be under- 
stood as criticising the way in which Proctor 
balanced him. When a trainer can do what 
Proctor did with Uhlan, what call is there for 
criticism? However, he balanced him, as bal- 
anced he certainly must have been. But every 
trainer has his own ideas of gait and balance, 
and likes to apply them. If I changed Uhlan, 
it was not because I wanted to criticise Proc- 
tor, but because I wanted to rig the horse 
my way and see if he would not go good so 
rigged. It shows what a great horse he was 
that he could break records rigged both ways. 
Probably if he was then to have passed into 
the hands of some other trainer, he might 
have made changes in him to correspond with 
his own ideas, and he would have continued 
to break records." 

Uhlan was trained on what has been called 
the "mile upon mile" system. Of course he 
was given some brush work, but the most he 
got he gave himself. He did this the davs he 
was jogged. It was his habit to "light out," in- 
variably, at some time during his exercise, 
and sprint a hundred yards or so about as fast 
as he could go. Sometimes he would only do 
this once, sometimes he would do it two or 
three times, and he was generally allowed to 
have his way about it. This, as much as anv- 
thine:, made him always have his speed with 
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with a view of enaljlin^^ him to carry his 
speed. 

Going into the breeding of Uhlan, it is found 
that his dam, Blonde, was bred by Dr. Harry 
L. Alderman, of Lexington, Mass., who owned 
Brunette, the dam of Blonde, which he pur- 
chased from his father. Dr. Alderman says 
that Blonde had plenty of spirit and a will of 
her own. It would never do to flash a whip 
on her. She had a lot of natural speed, and 
would have been a very fast trotter had she 
not met with an accident when she was a 
two-year-old and injured one of her hind 
legs, which proved permanent in its nature. 
He tried to train her, but after she got to a 
certain point in her training this trouble al- 
ways developed, and he gave it up in disgust. 
At that, right out of his road wagon, hitched 
to a sulky, Jere O'Neil drove her a quarter 
in 35 seconds. 

Uhlan inherited his tremendous speed, as is 
shown, not only from his sire and dam, but 
his grand-dam. Brunette, as well. Trainer 
John Trout, for a number of years manager 
of the Club stables at Charles River Speed- 
way, drove Brunette in all her races, and 
gave her a record of 2:30 1-4. 

In speaking of Brunette, Mr. Trout gave 
her career, while in his hands, as follows : 

"Brunette was a black mare, standing I 
should say, over 15 hands, well proportioned, 
and carried plenty of flesh upon her ribs, 
good all over till you got down to her hocks, 
which were pretty bad, and she gave me a 
good deal of trouble to keep her in racing 
form, in fact, I had to cocaine her very freely 
in order to get her to race at all. It was her 
weakness here that was the ultimate cause 
of her break-down. She was sent to me the 
Spring of 1887, when I and my son, Allie, 
were located at Mystic Park. She was then 
owned by Dan Beckler. I had seen the mare 
before she came to me, at Beacon Park, where 
she impressed me favorably. I started her for 
the first time in a 2 150 class, at a one-day 
meeting, held over the old half-mile track 
then called Norfolk Park, Readville, Mass. 
This was on June 17th, and she won very 
handily in straight heats. I started her eight 
times that year and she won six races for me. 
One race at Haverhill she was off, and I had 
to draw her after she had gone four or five 
heats. The other race was the one in which 
she broke down in the first heat, and never 
afterwards started. 

"She was trained some the following 
Spring by Jock Bowen at Mystic Park, but 
she could not stand the prep. She was a game, 
level-headed mare, and as pleasant a driver as 
I ever had to do with. She never made a 



break, was absolutely dependable under all 
circumstances and conditions, and I could 
place her wherever I liked, race her in behind 
other horses, or lay her along beside them, 
and whenever I got ready to move, a cluck 
and a touch of the whip on the shoulder was 
all sufficient. She knew what was wanted of 
her, and she was always there with the goods 
to deliver. 

"As a matter of fact, she was a much faster 
mare than her record would indicate, for I 
drove her a mile in a work-out over the Tilton 
(N. H.) half-mile track in 2:19 1-2, timed by 
at least two outside parties, and when you re- 
call that those were high-wheel sulky days, 
you will appreciate that was going some. 

"Brunette carried her head quite low, with 
her ears pricked forward, as if she had her at- 
tention fixed on something ahead of her. She 
was a good, clean-gaited trotter, but carried her 
hind feet a little to the outside in passing by 
her front feet. She had fairly good action, 
but not excessive. She was always a good 
doer, never missed a feed. I think I can see 
some of her gait in her wonderful grand-son, 
Uhlan, though she never had the high action 
in front that he has. 

"Brunette was brought from Kentucky with 
another mare by W. C. France, and the pair 
was traded to Dick McGlue of Lynn, who 
drove them to pole. I think he sold' her to a 
man who resided near Beacon Park. In any 
event, I used to see the mare over there be- 
fore she came into the possession of Dan 
Beckler. Mr. France, I believe, tried to trace 
the breeding of Brunette, and he told me that 
he learned that she was sired by a saddle horse, 
and that her dam was trotting bred. This is 
about all that I know regarding her breeding, 
but I do know that she was a wonderful trot- 
ter for those days.'' 

ARTHUR H. PARKER.-Breederof Uhlan 

Since his advent in the breeding of the 
light harness horse, Mr. Parker has made a 
name for himself with the topmost breeders 
of this country. At Shawsheen River Farm, 
Bedford, where Lilian was bred, is one of 
the best locations in the vicinitv of Boston 
for the rearing and developing of voung 
horses. It is situated on an elevation that 
permits of one to look for miles up the 
valley of the Shawsheen River. 

On the farm are three mansions, as, besides 
Mr. Parker, his two brothers reside in 
homes erected and furnished with the ele- 
gance of wealth. Good, commodious barns 
contain every comfort for their inmates, as, 
besides the horses, are kept a herd of cows, 
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laml is in the highest state of cultivation, 
considerable of it being used for market 
gardening, the product of which also goes to 
Boston. 

A number of years ago Mr. I'arker had 
training stables erected on a plot of land be- 
yond the other buildings, and close by was 
built a half-mile track. The footing on (liis 
track is excellent, fully equal to that found 
on any two-lapped course in the country. 

It is here that Mr. Parker, with his trainer. 
Eddie McGrath, spends his happiest hours in 
developing youngsters. With keen eyes, he 
watches their improvement. Impromptu 
races are held between Mr. Parker and his 
brothers during the Summer at the track. 
It is a practice for each to pick a favorite 
youngster, possibly when it is a suckling or 
a yearling, and the three agree to a match 
race when the colts are either two or three 
years old. Every effort is exerted in bring- 
ing the colts to the wire in condition to win, 
each taking as much interest in his pet as 
though to win a big futurity stake valued 
at thousands of dollars. Older horses in 
training are often matched one day to race 
the next, one of the brothers possiblv believ- 
ing that with a different driver the horse 
will be able to trot faster. 



When Mv. I'arker decided to become the 
breeder of the trotting horse, his advent was 
most spectacular. None present at the 
[<eadville sale will forget his purchase of the 
great stallion, Bingen, 2:06 1-4, for $32,000. 
it was immediately recognized that a new 
Roman had entered the breeding field. 
(Jther stallions that he has owned were AlI'C- 
wood, 2:09 1-2: The Aloma, 2:10 1-4; ar.d 
Hal Ensign, 2:15 1-2. 

In 1Q14, the stallions the property of Mr. 
Parker were Cochato (3), 2:11 1-2; Peter 
Red, 2;ii 1-2: Aquilin. 2:H) 3-4: and Prince 
McKinney. 

While Mr. Parker has bred less than 
Sixty foals, therefore not a large breeder by 
any means, yet his success has been phenom- 
enal, as, outside of Uhlan, he 'has bred, 
owned, and raced the following performers 
of note, a review of which will show even to 
the novice the high quality of the material 
brought out at Shawsheen River Farm : 

The Huguenot, 2:07 3-4; Billy Patten, 
2:09 1-2; Annie Leyburn, 2:10 1-2: Little 
Better, 2:11 1-4; Aconite, 2:12 1-2; Aliss 
McGregor, 2:13; Lexington (matinee), 2:15; 
Susiewood, 2:15 1-4; Czarine Bingen, 
2:16 T-2: Gun Metal, 2:16 1-4: The Alder- 
man, 2:16 1-2; Hazelwood. 2:19 1-4: Peter 




UHLAN liefeatiiig HAMBURG BELLE in Big Race at Readville Track on Sept. 3, 1909 
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Reed, _':!<) 1-4: P.lackwood, 2:21 1-2; Acco- 
lon, 2:hm-4; Joe Idleman, 2:221-2; Holly 
Tree HI, 2:25 1-4; Thomas Aquinas (3), 
2:21 1-4; and Cochato Brave, 2:23 1-4. 

Mr. Parker served on the board of direc- 
tors of the New England Trotting Horse 
.Breeders" Association, and became a member 
o; the Metropolitan Driving Club in 1906. 
He is also a member of the Gentlemen's 
Driving Club of Boston. Frequently he 
slips over t(.) the Charles River Speedway 
with one of his speedy trotters, a two or 
three-year-old, and captures a few l.)lue rib- 
bons from the aged trotters. 

Uhlan"s first season to sleigh will be re- 
membered by those who saw him at the 
speedway. Other victories with the young- 
sters Mr. Parker owned and drove there were 
with Aconite, Gun Metal, The Alderman, etc. 
Mr. Parker resides at the Shawsheen River 
l'"arm, Bedford, .Mass. 

ROBERT C. Proctor- -Trainer of Uhlan 

Much could be written of Rol)ert C. Proc- 
tor, the man who t(jok Chlan the I'all he 
was a three-year-old, and developed and 
raced him up to the time he was sold to Mr. 
Billings, as he has spent his entire life with 
horses. 

He was born in Lexington, Ky., in 1857, 
and received his education in the local 
schopls of his native city. When still a mere 
youth he engaged with H. P. AfcCirath, of 
Le.xington, Ky., to ride running horses. He 
then trained colts on the leading stock farms 
in Kentucky until 1893, when he came North, 
becoming head trainer for Frank Jones at 
Portsmouth, N. H., and he developed and 
drove in races while there Tom Boy, 
2:10 1-2; Mickey, 2:20; Vendetta, 2:20 1-2; 
Forrester, 2:22 1-4; Light }\loon, with v,hich 
he was second in 2:11, etc. 

In 1897 he opened a public training stable 
at Readville track, where he is still located. 
Among the best ones he developed and cam- 
paigned at Readville, to the close of 1914, 
can be named The Leading Lady, which he 
gave a world's three-year-old record of 2:07; 
Sir Todd, 2:10 3-4: Nellie Temple, 2:05 1-4: 
Albia, 2:083-4; Bergen (3), 2:101-2: Bethel, 
2:161-4; Miss Pratt, 2:171-4; Newton, 
2:17 1-4 : The Minute Man. 2:21 1-4; Bismya, 
2:09 1-4, winner of five races in 1813; Bon 
X'ivant (3), 2:10 1-4; High Private (3), 
2 -.2^^ 3-4, etc. Mr. Proctor resides at Read- 
ville, Mass. 



CHAPTER H 

Incidents in the Life of George W. 

Leavitt, the Noted Horseman 

GEORGE \\'. LEAVITT, New 
England's foremost horseman, 
was born in Pembroke, Me. He 
left home when twenty-one years 
of age and went to Readville, 
where he worked in an iron foundry for four 
years. Then he returned to Pemljroke for a 
year, came back to Boston and got a job 
as conductor on the horse cars that, at the 
time, ran on Shawmut Avenue. After this he 
sold lubricating oils on the road. Dogs got to 
be his stronghold for a while. He owned the 
champion of them all, the Irish setter Elcho, 
Jr., and his full sister, Norine, 2d. Elcho was 
exhibited all over the country, winning blues, 
until finally Mr. Leavitt sold him to Dr. Jar- 
vis, of Claremont, N. H., for $i,775- 

From his first years of understanding he 
was passionately fond of a good horse; in 
fact, when in his boyhood days, the only way 
that his father could get him to do any work 
was by bringing a horse into the occa- 
sion. Whenever the senior Mr. Leavitt could 
spot a wood pile a long way from home, he 
would buy, with the object of having George 
kept busy and out of mischief in hauling it. 
Then when selling oils, he became more and 
more identified with horses, till finally he gave 
up the road and devoted his entire time to 
his fancy. 

In his chosen vocation Mr. Leavitt met 
with pronounced success, not only for him- 
self, but for those who used his keen horse 
judgment in obtaining stallions and brood 
mares for stock farms, or racing material with 
the object of capturing rich stakes on the turf. 

It was through his judgment that Col. John 
E. Thayer bought Ralph Wilkes, 2:06 3-4, 
that held, with Bingen, 2 :o6 1-4, the world's 
trotting record for five-year-old stallions of 
2 :o6 3-4, and later he induced Colonel Thayer 
to purchase Baron Wilkes, 2:18, acting as his 
agent in securing the two famous stallions. It 
was Mr. Leavitt who prevailed on J. Malcolm 
Forbes to buy Bingen, who got Charles Whit- 
temore to bring May King, 2 :20, from Ken- 
tucky, who bought and managed successfully 
a racing stable for A. S. Bigelow, and who 
was entirely responsible for the purchase of 
Peter the Great, 2:07 1-4, by his present 
owner. 

These are a few examples of his keenness 
in picking the wheat from the chafT when 
buying weanlings, yearlings and two-year- 
olds, as the majority of his purchases have 
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passed through his hands when young and un- 
tried the noted Sadie Mac, 2:06 1-4; Todd, 
2:14 3-4, sold for $30,000 at auction; Early 
Bird, 2:10, one of the best race horses ever 
brought to New England; Cochato, 2:11 1-2, 
winner of the $10,000 Charter Oak Futurity; 
Bob Douglas, 2:04 1-2, winner of the same 
stake and bred by Mr. Leavitt ; Dolly Bid- 
well, 2:081-2, winner of the $10,000 Roger 
Williams stake ; Guinette, 2 105 ; Gordon 
Prince, 2:05 1-2; Will Leyburn, 2:06; Terrill 
S., 2:08 1-4, etc., and with one or two excep- 
tions all picked when in their colthood days. 

Mr. Leavitt has never personally trained 
horses, still the fact is generally known that 
he directs the amount of work and care which 
those under his management are given by his 
trainer. To a single move he is the "boss" in 
what shall be done on the track and in the 
stable. Even is this carried so far by him that 
so far as possible he dictates to the trainer 
how he wishes the races driven. How won- 
derful is his judgment in this sphere of the 
horse proposition has been proved through 
his success with a racing stable of his own, 
under Jere O'Neil. and later in the manage- 
ment of whatever other horses he has con- 
trolled when being campaigned. 

As the manager of stallions in service he 
certainlv is king. In the line of a "stud boss 
man" his repuation cannot be equaled. There 
have been Bill Simmons with his George 
Wilkes, 2:22, Williams with Allerton, 2:09 1-4, 
Nelson with his namesake. Nelson, 2 109, but 
there has never before been a Leavitt. or his 
like, in the bringing forward to the limelight 
of publicity a stallion. 

''Give Leavitt a well-bred stud and he will 
fill his book in a country where mares are 
scarce as hen's teeth," is a saying among those 
who are acquainted with what he has done 
with the stallions that have been placed under 
his jurisdiction. 

He was the father of Bingen when in the 
stud at the Forbes' Farm; he was the father 
of Todd when in Kentucky and at the John- 
son Farm, and he fathered Cochato in Ken- 
tucky and at the Johnson Farm. 

How much Mr. Leavitt is appreciated by 
the Kentucky horsemen is related by An- 
drew G. Leonard, the prominent Kentucky 
turf correspondent, as follows : 

"Wb.en Mr. Leavitt purchased Bingen, 
the colt, while a fast youngster, had attracted 
practically no attention among the horsemen 
m Kentucky, in fact he was criticised for 
what was termed his lack of judgment. After 
Bingen had trotted in his two-year-old form, 
in 2:121-2, and had shown his abilit\- to 
lower the then existing two-year-old record 



held by Arion, his judgment was applauded, 
and when in after years this wonderful stal- 
lion had founded the greatest family in the 
trotting register, had sired the peerless 
Chlan! the greatest of all trotters, and had 
seen his sons and grandsons famous in the 
stud, a full realization was had of ^Ir. 
Leavitt's foresight. He is practically respon- 
sible for the Bingen tribe, for the probabili- 
ties are that the colt in other hands would 
never have become a great race horse, nor 
would he in all likelihood have found the op- 
portunities that were given him in his New 
England home. 

"In developing Todd into a speed marvel 
in his colthood, and in sending the son of 
Bingen and Fanella to Kentucky, Mr. 
Leavitt made it possible for this wonderful 
horse to become the most phenomenal sire 
of his age wdio ever lived. The influence 
made by Todd on the breeding industry in 
Kentucky is incalculable, for whde this horse 
iJied when verv young and made but three 
seasons in the Blue Grass state, he numbers 
among the members of his family many 
champions. He himself in the first genera- 
tion was an extraordinary success, while his 
sons and grandsons, his daughters and hi.s 
granddaughters have found places in almost 
every important breeding establishment in 
the land. 

"Perhaps the most notable achievement in 
his career as a horseman was the selection of 
The Northern Man, which he owns in part- 
nership with John W. Nash, proprietor of 
Sledmere Farm, Lexington. Ky. Here was 
a horse who, while he was beautifully bred 
and a speed marvel as a youngster, had 
through adverse circumstances been practi- 
cally " forgotten. George Leavitt believing 
firnilv in his ability as a sire, purchase<l a 
controlling interest in him and immediately 
set to work to vindicate his judgment. His 
first step was to give the horse a record, and 
although suffering from an ailment incurred 
by injudicious handling in his colthood, the 
stallion gained a mark of 2 :o6 1-2 with less 
work than is usually given a horse in prepar- 
ing him for a mile in 2:30. After this had 
been accomplished Mr. Leavitt, who is by 
all odds the shrewdest manager of a trotting 
stallion who ever lived, brought to his horse 
mar.v of the most noted brood mares in the 
land, and today there is no more popular sire 
in Iventucky, or one who has a greater num- 
ber of richly-bred promising youngsters of 
individuality and speed. 

"George W. Leavitt is not only a practical 
horseman, but he has all the theoretical 
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of a breeder. He possesses that intuition 
which prompts him to choose the best ina- 
terial at an undeveloped age and without 
which no great horseman is ever found. His 
extraordinary success in selecting really 
wonderful horses has had nothing to do with 
luck, for so imerring is his judgment, so pro- 
found his information, so keen his eye for the 
good qualities of a horse, that he has been 
able to select prizes in the way of horse flesh, 
which others would have overlooked. He 
understands the breeding problem thorough- 
ly, recognizes blood lines which nick well to- 
gether, is a rare judge of individuality, is 
quick to see unsoundness and has no su- 
perior, if indeed he has an equal, as a judge 
of gait. It can truthfully be said of George 
I.eavitt that he is a practical all around horse- 
man, with few equals and no superiors, and 
these qualities are extremely rare. His repu- 
tation for integrity can best be realized from 
the fact that he has the largest clientele of 
any man in Xew England and, probably in 
the United States, and the men that have 
dealt with him continue to do so, trusting 
implicitly in his judgment and liis loyalty to 
their interests. 

"i^ersonally he is the best of companions, 
with a fund of information regarding the 
horse, a ready wit, which has made him 
many friends and has never wounded. He 
numbers among his acquaintances many of 
the most influential men of affairs in this 
country, his advice is constantly sought, and 
his judgment deferred to. He has seen the 
great trotters and pacers of the past and the 
present, and his breeding operations, now 
conducted more extensively than ever in his 
life, are bound to have an influence on pos- 
terity." 

Up to twenty-four years ago Mr. Leavitt 
was a moderate drinker, a habit he began 
when a boy in Maine and followed up to the 
time named, since when not a drop of liquor, 
wine or malt has passed his lips. This swear- 
ing oiif came through a particular friend of 
his, John H. Kimball, of Hillsboro. N. H.. 
betting one day in the Quincy House in Bos- 
ton with Mr. Leavitt that he could not go a 
year without drinking. 

Well, the $i,occ — $500 each — was placed in 
the safe at the hotel. When the year was out 
Mr. Leavitt mailed a check to Mr. Kimball 
for the amount he had wagered, as the win- 
ning of it was so soft that he did not feel like 
accepting his friend's money. It was, too, be- 
cause it was so easy for him to get along 
without it that from that time he has never 
indulged. 

Mr. Leavitt frequently mentions happenings 



a couple of which may not prove uninterest- 
ing, as follows: 

"It was at Mystic Park when Jere 0"Neil 
liad the three-year-old Lycurgus. Arriving at 
the track with a party in a barouche, Jere in- 
formed me that he wasn't going to start the 
colt, as there were thirteen in the race, and he 
had no chance of winning even a piece of the 
purse. I told him to start. It had cost me $50 
to parade with that bunch, and I intended to 
get a race for my money. When it came to 
drawing positions, Lycurgus was given last 
place to score from. 

"A nephew of mine was at the track. I 
was particiflarly anxious to keep him away 
from the barouche, so we could enjoy our- 
selves. Thus it was when he came over and 
said that Lycurgus was only selling for a dol- 
lar in pools of over a hundred, I told him to 
go over and buy some in order to get rid of 
him. Lycurgus won the race, however, and 
my nephew had bought nine of those tickets. 
Perhaps the welkin didn't ring that night." 

For a great number of years the police of 
Boston had been bothered by citizens being 
held up and robbed when crossing the South 
Boston bridge of evenings. One of the first 
to make the plan successful, and one of the 
few holdups in which the police were not noti- 
fied, was carried through by Mr. Leavitt. It 
happened in this way : 

Through hard work he had sold a horse for 
a resident of the State of A'ermont, the mu- 
tual agreement having been that were a sale 
made ]\Ir. Leavitt was to receive $50 for his 
commission. This Vermonter was well known 
for his "snug" habits, never a dollar being 
known to escape him without just cause and 
extreme necessity. The afternoon of the sale 
Mr. Leavitt asked his man to devote the time 
before he left for home in seeing Prof. Glea- 
son in his taming act with unmanageable 
horses, who was then giving two shows daily 
up near Dover Street. 

During the performance the \'ermonter 
dug into his pocket and brought out a shining 
five-dollar gold piece and handed it to Mr. 
Leavitt, saying that it was all he could pay 
for the horse sale, as matters had gone dif- 
ferent from what he expected. During the 
show Air. Leavitt was quietly chewing on the 
measly way that he had been used. Finally, 
when the performance had concluded, Mr. 
Leavitt, in place of taking the \'ermonter 
back into the center of the city, started out 
over the South Boston bridge. Being a stran- 
ger, the \'ermonter confidently trudged along 
the way he was being led. 

Reaching the middle of the bridge, and the 
darkest spot, Mr. Leavitt suddenly stopped, 
pushed the \'ermonter up against the rail, and 



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firmly told him that unless he handed jver the 
remainder of that fifty plunks he never would 
pass off that bridge alive. The Vermonter 
noted Mr. Leavitt's determined air, saw that 
no person was in sight, hesitated only a min- 
ute, and then produced the goods. 

From that day to this he has never men- 
tioned the occurrence to Mr. Leavitt, though 
both have repeatedly met, nor did it break- 
friendship in the slightest degree. 

Had he but known, however, Mr. Leavitt 
asserts that had the Vermonter shown fight, 
he was all ready to do a stiff sprint, himself, 
across that bridge. 

Once when he had Jere O'Neil racing 
R. M. Wilkes at the Narragansett Park (it 
was duringa fair and there was no betting), 
Trainer Colonel Jas. Galvin asked Mr. Leav- 
itt to please drop a heat so he could mark a 
stallion he was starting in the race, and which 
he had been in sore straits in giving a record 
better than 2 130. It was agreed on. It so oc- 
curred that one of the judges was Major P. P. 
Johnston, president of the National Trotting 
Association. The heat was liack in 2 :j8 3-4. 
Immediately Jere was called in the stand to 
explain why he was defeated in so slow time. 
Air. Leavitt, seeing that something was going 
on, followed up. He then told Mr. Johnston 
just the whole story of dropping the heat to 
accommodate Colonel Galvin. 

"I never in my life heard anything like 
that," declared Mr. Johnston. "You come up 
here and tell the judges that before the heat 
you told your driver plainly not to win, but 
to deliberately pull his horse. It is most aston- 
ishing." 

"Well," replied j\lr. Leavitt, "I'm not to 
blame if nobody has ever told you the truth 
before, am I?" 

To this day Mr. Leavitt firmly believes that 
it was his retort to Major Johnston that 
caused the judges to soak him a hundred dol- 
lars fine for having his horse pulled, and 
placing a penalty of another hundred on the 
horse for getting pulled in the race. 

A partial list of the horses, not before men- 
tioned, that have passed through Mr. 
Leavitt's hands follows : 

Ituna, 2:10; Jasper Ayers, 2:09; Larabie, 
2:12 3-4; Allen Lowe, 2:12; Allie Snell, 
2:14 3-4; Roster, 2:12 1-4; Tuna, 2:12 1-4; 
Wistful, 2:11 1-2; Kwanon, 2:12 1-4; Zem- 
bia, 2:11 1-4; Darnette, 2:12 1-4; Fanella, 
2:13; Bingen, Jr., 2:13 3-4; Alice Drake, 
2:14 1-4; Rondo, Jr., 2:12 1-2; Erskine 
Reed, 2:12 1-4; Utility, 2:13; Edgardo, 
^:i3 3-4; Tomah, 2:10; Lucy Carr (4), 
2:14 1-4; Gaiety Girl, 2:15, dam of four in 
the list and grandam of Lee Axworthy, 



2:08 1-4; Regent's Last, dam of five in 2:30 
or better; Nosegay, 2:13; Pussy Cat, 
2:12 1-4; Clayhontas, 2:11 1-4; Frank Jones, 
2:16 1-2; Merry Bird, 2:16 1-2; Achille, 
2:15 1-4; Nellie' Boca (3), 2:18; Cohannet, 
2:17 1-2; Red Cliff, 2:18; Driver, 2:19; Em- 
peror Wilkes, 2:20 3-4; Tom Phair, 2:14 1-4; 
Diamond, 2:15; Fannie Swope, 2:19 1-4, etc. 
Air. Leavitt resides at Readville, Mass. 



CHAPTER III 



Jimmie Carpenter Sits in a "Gen- 
tleman's" Game of Poker, 
and What Happened 

AXl-:\\' EX( ;LAXD trainer, known 
far and wide, is James Carpenter, 
of Readville, who, during his turf 
career of about fifty years, has 
driven horses to victory over all 
the prominent tracks of this country, the 
purses of which have run as high as $10,000. 
There are few knowing Mr. Carpenter that 
would even suggest his having a swelled head, 
but here is a story of a race in which, from 
Mr. Carpenter's own words, he did feel a lit- 
tle chesty. This is how it happened, and the 
plot was laid over the Woonsocket, R. I., 
track : 

In one of the events was a trotting mare 
called Betsy Bets, and her owner being a 
prominent Frenchman of that town, those of 
that nationality for miles around flocked to 
the course to see her win. Each and every one 
of them had to have a pool ticket on their 
champion. Two heats were decided, and in 
place of leading the party Betsy Bets came 
straggling in away in the rear both times. 

Something had to be done, or all of the 
French money was burnt up. Carpenter was 
approached to see if he would take the mount. 
He did, and pulled off tne race in the three 
following heats. Imagine the great excitement 
at the conclusion of the race among the 
Frenchmen, and Carpenter was in the center 
of the turmoil. When he got to the mare's 
stall it was even worse, if possible, some of 
the Frenchmen and their wives fairly falling 
on his neck with joy. On all sides could be 
heard cries of how he was the best driver in 
the whole country. Carpenter at that mo- 
ment really thought he was. 

All of this time the owner and the mare 
had been left in the lurch. Nothing was said 
of the mare, while the owner stood to one side 
unnoticed. The great hurrah over Carpenter 
finally jarred the owner's nerves so he could 
hold in no longer, and stepping up to Carpen- 
ter he said: "You tink you one hell driver. 



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yes ! I tell you 1 tink good horse, good driver ; 
no good horse, bad driver." 

Carpenter says that the Frenchman being 
an oracle among his people, his words had the 
desired effect with the crowd, but no more so 
than the shift in his own feelings, which in- 
stantly dropped from away above par to the 
zero notch. Besides this, the longer he has 
been in the training business the more from 
year to year he has realized the entire truth 
of what the Frenchman said that aay at tne 
Woonsocket track. Nobody could ever accuse 
Jimmie's head of swelling since, either. 

If there is one thing Carpenter had rather 
do than eat it is to have a social game of 
cards ; about a three-dollar limit suits him to 
the king's taste. It is notorious, too, that while 
an expert with the pasteboards, yet Dame For- 
tune has a habit of grinning at the other 
chaps in the game. Any person less good- 
natured than Carpenter would be calling on 
all of the gods of wrath at the way good hands 
went wrong. Being indift'erent, though, he 
simply keeps the attention of those present 
to — "There, that is the kind of luck I have ; 
just to get a full house now when a bigger one 
is out. Did you ever see anything like it in 
your life?" 

But an incident occurred at the opening 
meeting at Rigby Park (catastrophe, Jim 
would say). Most of the horsemen were 
stopping at the Preble House, and in the even- 
ing quite a good game of poker was started, 
there were nine in the game. Being all jack- 
pots none would, in this instance, open the pot, 
and the stem had been sweetened fifty cents 
by each at the table. The dealer was one 
whom Carpenter had taught the mysteries of 
poker about a year before — that is a few 
moves toward the simpler points of how the 
hands came in the way of rank in winning 
when the show-down came, and by the way 
the novice was a well known turf reporter. 

Sitting under the guns, next to the dealer, 
was Jimmie ; just beyond him was Frank New- 
hall, owner of Bunco, Jr., 2:12 1-2; then came 
-Alien Lowe, at the time on the Boston Globe, 
while around the table were horsemen of note. 
The story weaves about the ones mentioned. 
Jim had three aces all the time, but passed to 
get a play. Newhall was strong, he supposed, 
with three kings. Lowe had a likely looking 
four flush. Thinking to raise the one who 
would open the pot, Newhall, like Jim, also 
passed. None of the rest had jacks or better, 
so it went to the dealer, who tossed a five- 
dollar chip into the center of the table, and 
the play was on. 

Right off the reel Jim boosted it a "fiver" 
more, putting in a couple of blues, and New- 
hall gave the pot a further toss with three 



blues. Lowe studied his hand for a minute 
and then stayed for the fifteen dollars. All 
of the rest passed. The dealer certainly had 
opened with something choice, as he saw the 
raises and went five better. Again Jim raised. 
Newhall only stayed, as did Lowe. The deal- 
er came back with another raise, which caused 
Carpenter to just stay, as did the other two. 

Jim took two cards, Newhall the same, while 
Lowe and the dealer called for one. The 
dealer immediately bet a blue, and Jim raised 
him one ; Newhall called, he having so much 
money in the pot, while Lowe passed, not hav- 
ing filled. The dealer was full of confidence 
and came back at Jim again, causing the latter 
to call, and so did Newhall. The dealer showed 
down an ace-high heart flush, and swept in 
the pot. 

The deal had passed around to Lowe when 
suddenly Carpenter said to the novice that he 
should not have forgotten when splitting 
openers, in drawing to a flush, to put his dis- 
card so as to show it after the play was over. 
This to prove he had openers. 

"But I didn't have a pair in my hand to 
split," replied the novice. 

"What in the world did you open that pot on 
then?" inquired our worthy Jim. 

"Why, I had four hearts and caught the 
ace. What is the matter; isn't this a gentle- 
man's game?" Well, the yell that went forth 
when the explanation was made could have 
been heard clear to the race track. On Jim's 
part he was left guessing whether the novice 
was bluffing him or telling the truth. The 
story of the poker hand got noised around, 
and for weeks everybody was asking Carpen- 
ter if he had sat in another gentleman's game. 

Twenty-five or more years ago it was gen- 
erally considered that over the half-mile tracks 
everything "went." Of course, in time the 
practice wiped the majority of the two-lap 
circuits off the racing map, but while it lasted 
it was the case of the big fish eating the small- 
er ones. The following trick Carpenter turned 
in a race over the Lawrence, Mass., track, and 
it can be illustrated under the caption of "Dia- 
mond cut Diamond." While the caption has 
been _ used before, it is the one best to 
describe how Jimmie handed the wise men a 
lemon. 

Among the horses Jim landed at the meet- 
ing with was the chestnut trotter, Archie B., 
2.18 1-4. The owners attempted to buy a few 
tickets on the horse, but his merits had pre- 
ceded him, and the frame-up was not consid- 
ered necessary to count in the owners. The 
judges had got the tip to make Archie B. win 
at all hazards. In the same event Henry Pope 
had Pilot. It looked like he was the next best 
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Archie B. selling choice at $100, I'ilot for $50, 
and the field at half that sum, Carpenter and 
his party played Pilot. 

While a pair of four-ounce sinkers had been 
placed on Archie B., it was considered that in 
the case of putting up another driver it might 
not prove enough to be any cinch of his los- 
ing. Two heats Pilot had gathered to his 
credit, and there was botlier brewing in the 
air. Before the third heat Carpenter had the 
groom take off the wheels on the high-wheel 
sulky and slip some washers on the axle next 
to the shoulder. Then the nuts were tightened 
so the wheels could barely turn with Carpen- 
ter's weight on the sulky, and out they marched 
for the verdict. 

It came, in Charley Drew, the starting judge, 
requesting Carpenter to turn his gelding over 
to "Uncle Jock" Bowen. For one turn of the 
track Archie B. and Pilot raced head and head. 
Then the "fixings" told its story and the for- 
mer began tiring so that at the three-quarters 
he was absolutely out of the race. A big 
hustle was then made to have ail the pools 
declared off. Those on the inside expected 
the judges would give them the usual heads 
I win, tails you lose, two-headed cent decision, 
but the suckers had been bitten so often at 
that play it certainly looked like serious trou- 
ble if the Pilot's tickets were not paid in full. 
After sizing the temper of the crowd the offi- 
cials in the stand announced the heat and race, 
and "cashing in" was in order. It was the 
first time that tightening sulky wheels with 
washers had been tried. The following week 
Archie B. was a close second to Martha Wilkes 
in 2:18, which caused "Uncle Jock" to de- 
clare that Carpenter had forgotten to washer 
his wheels. 

At another time, however. Carpenter got 
whip-sawed in a lively fashion. He had a rare 
good green trotter that had shown so fast it 
was thought best to slip off to a section where 
he was not known by the speculators. To the 
Oil Circuit was the game. In the opening 
betting the Providence gelding went for little, 
but the steady flow of money by the few be- 
hind him gradually advanced his price till he 
sold favorite against the whole field. Among 
the starters was a little poke of a mare ; a 
sorry-looking plug. Her sulky was a home- 
made affair, with straight axle and wobbly 
wheels, and the harness cheap, she was not 
even figured in the betting, but was the butt 
of jokes from the grooms and the race-track 
regulars. When the word "go" was given, 
though, off slipped the rube to the front with 
his despised trotter, and was never headed in 
the race, taking a record of 2 -.zg 3-4. The 
Providence delegation tried to settle with rube 



before the conclusion of the race, but he plain- 
ly informed them that he stood to win about 
every cent in the pool box. The following day 
this same little mare was started in the 2 128 
class, and won, reducing her record to 2 :23 1-4. 
The Carpenter crowd returned home much 
dejected and declaring that they had run 
against a ringer. It turned out everything 
was all right, as the mare was Justine, by 
Benediction. 



CHAPTER IV 

History of the Old-Time Race 
Tracks in Greater Boston 

WlllLii niMst of the horsemen of 
today are familiar with the his- 
tory of Readville and Com- 
bination Parks, yet it is well, as 
a matter of record, to give the 
story of each in the account of the race tracks 
that have been constructed in the Metropolitan 
District of Boston. From the time of the 
opening of the South End Driving Park to the 
present period, there have been many changes 
brought about, as the following article amply 
attests : 

Old .Saugus race track was for years known 
as Franklin Park. It is one of the oldest race 
courses in the country. In the Fall of 1S57 
the park was finished, and Dr. Timothy H. 
Smith, the proprietor, held a fair upon the 
grounds ; John Sherman of "old-time memory" 
managed it the next season; Samuel Emerson 
had it in 1859, and Hitchcock & Emerson in 
1860. 

In 1861 Lyme Hitchcock had it alone, and 
these were tip-top races, and the season was 
a successful one, but the horse fair in the Fall 
was, pecuniarily speaking, a failure. In 1862 
Dan Robbins & Co. leased it and made other 
additions and improvements in the way of 
building extra box stalls, stands and sheds, for 
which there was an increasing demand ; in en- 
larging the necessary accommodation of the 
house, and filling up and grading the track and 
embanking the back-stretch and lower turn, 
to prevent its being flooded when the tide ran 
high. 

From this time until 1884 Old Saugus track 
had a varied experience, for many years there 
being no racing there at all, the property fall- 
ing back to its original owner, Dr. Smith, who 
lived in the residence, later destroyed by fire, 
that was in the corner to the entrance of the 
track coming from the direction of Cb'ftondale. 

In the Fall of 1883, C. C. Mayberry, in com- 
pany with three other men, bought Saugus 
race course from the estate of Dr. Smith, then 
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the track, which in its years of unuse had 
grown up to grass and the buildings fallen in. 
Later Mr. Mayberry bought out his three as- 
sociates and owned the property alone. He 
employed J. A. Snow, a prominent horseman 
of those days, as his secretary, and for four 
years race meetings were given several times 
each season. 

In 1888 Mr. Mayberry sold the track tt) 
C). S. Roberts, who gave meetings there in 
1889. but he rebought it again in 1890, being 
one of a syndicate of ten Lynn men. Later 
that year the plant was sold by Mr. Mayberry 
and associates to George H. Engleman and 
other owners of the Brighton Beach race 
course. 

In 1891 James (J. Gray, a successful busi- 
ness man of that period, leased the property 
from Mr. Engleman and associated himself 
with A\'. F. Hitchings, making the latter his 
secretary, and a very good move it proved. 
A series of race meetings were given under 
the administration of these men and with great 
success, the place jumping into immense popu- 
larity with the owners and trainers of race 
horses throughout the Eastern section of this 
country. In 1895 Mr. Gray bought the prop- 
erty from Air. Engleman, but in 1898 it re- 
verted back again to the Brighton Beach own- 
ers, and in the meanwhile Mr. Hitchings had 
taken possession of the property through a 
lease from the Engleman estate. 

For two seasons, previous to the stopping 
of speculation at the tracks in Massachusetts, 
he ran the usual race meetings, but with the 
stopping of betting on the races, the gates of 
Saugus were closed, and, while the track is still 
in existence, very little has been done with it 
in recent years. A few matinees have been 
held there and some motor cycle races, and 
there has been suggested a corporation being 
formed with the idea in the future of holding 
annually a big fair. 

Mystic Park was first opened to the pub- 
lic on June 11, 1866. The starters in the first 
race ever trotted over this course were India 
Rubber. Old Put, Honest Kate and John 
Bartlett. India Rubber won in straight heats ; 
time 2:33 1-2, 2:34 1-2, 2:34 1-2. The time of 
the first heat ever trotted over this popular 
track (2:33 1-2) was then considered remark- 
ably fast. Flora Temple then held the cham- 
])ion trotting record of the world, 2:193-4. 

Mystic Park was a fertile farm belonging to 
George Adams, and during the war the mus- 
ter grounds for the outgoing soldiers w-ere 
located there. In 1865 Benjamin S. Wright 
purchased the farm, built the track and erect- 
ed the buildings. 

The track was first opened to the public for 
race meetings bv Henry Smith, of Newmar- 
ket, N. H., and his partner, a Mr. Morrison, 



of Boston, the latter conducting the track hotel. 
In 1871 the famous minstrel, "Lon" Morris, 
became manager, and for four or five years 
conducted race meetings. Then for a short pe- 
riod Mr. Wright assumed the direction, to be 
succeeded by a partnership formed between 
Dr. George H. Bailey and George Brigham. 
Their management co\ered that notab'e year 
of 1874, when Goldsmith Maid electrified the 
trotting world with a mile in 2:14. J. Tyler 
Hicks was in control foi two or three years, 
when the track passed tinder the management 
of a company comprised of George Ayer, Eu- 
gene Aver. Benjamin Fiske, James Golden and 
others. 

In 1887 Horace ]l. \\illis assumed the 
management, and that period, extending to 
1897, when the last races occurred at Mysti'- 
Park, marked an epoch for high-class racing 
in the annals of the light-harness horse. Mr. 
Willis gave six meetings a vear. including the 
Breeders', the last meeting of the season oc- 
curring not later than October 30. The New 
England Trotting Horse Breeders' Associa- 
tion gave its last meeting at Mystic in 1895, 
the Readville track being opened in 1896. 

In 1874 Mr. Willis, in company with David 
Blanchard, gave the great $10,000 stallion 
race, which was won by Smuggler. 

Several running races were given at Mystic 
with indifferent success. During the progress 
of a meeting in 1893 a fire occurred in the 
stables in which three horses were destroyed. 
During one of the last meetings at Mystic, 
Star Pointer ( i :59 1-4) established a world's 
pacing record for three heats in a race, which 
remained unbeaten for several years. 

In 1903 the track property was sold to a 
real estate syndicate, headed by C. C. May- 
berry, and little of the old track is in existence 
now — a portion of the back-stretch. Where 
the famous hotel, the Mystic House, stood, 
have been created modern dwelling houses. 

Combination Park was the result of a long- 
cherished desire of J. Tyler Hicks, who away 
back in the eighties, when he ran Granite 
State Park, in Dover, N. H., laid plans for 
some day building and owning a model race 
track. In 1895 he secured the property in 
]\Iedford, and with his son Arthur, and 
his brother George began the construction of 
the track. 

The plant was finished in the Spring of 
1896, and on June 10 it was thrown open to 
the ptiblic. Woodshed won the first heat ever 
raced over it in 2:21 3-4, and Greenhorn the 
first race. Race meetings were held that year 
and in 1897 and 1898. In 1899 the evening 
racing began and was continued in 1900. 

As fast, if not the fastest half-mile track 
in the world, in the years it was used for 
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splendid racing. It was over this track that 
Joe Patchen placed the then world's pacing 
record for a two-lap course at 2 104 1-4. 

In the early nineties the equity of Combi- 
nation Park passed to George A. Graves, who 
still owns the property. For a number of years 
the Fellsway Driving Club has decided its 
matinees over the course, and in 1914 a suc- 
cessful race meeting was held. 

Beacon Park, which was located in Allston, 
was first known as the Riverside half-mile 
track, and was opened to the public in 1864. 
"Uncle Jock" Bowen was the first public 
trainer to locate there, and drove in the first 
race which was decided over the course. In 
1865 "Uncle Jock" drove Capt. McGowan 
over this track twenty miles in 58:25, which 
is still the world's record for that distance. 
In the early seventies Riverside track was re- 
built into a mile track and was rechristened 
Beacon Park. 

Many of the old-time champions and he- 
roes of the turf contested in the races at this 
track, among them Judge Fullerton, Ameri- 
can Girl, St. Julien, who later became the 
world's champion trotter v.'ith a record of 
2:131-4, taking the crown from Goldsmith 
Maid, whose mark of 2:14 had long been the 
best ; Fearnaught, Driver, Wedgewood, Santa 
Claus, Clingstone, Parana, Edwin Thorne. 
Fannie Witherspoon, Pilot Knox, etc. 

Beacon Park was well patronized by the 
public trainers at one time, there being located 
there Jack Trout, for two years lessee of the 
property, also George H. Hicks, lessee of the 
property for ten seasons. "Young Hiram" 
Woodruff, Jimmie Cahill, Charles Yapp, John 
Ramsey, J. J. Bowen, Ed. Cogswell, etc. 

It was in these days of the old Beacon 
when the South Boston Driving Club and the 
East Boston Club held two matinee days of 
racing, one in the Spring and the other in the 
Fall of each year. The Boston Driving Club 
and Athletic Association were lessees of the 
track in 18S0, when St. Julien went his mile 
above mentioned. \\'illiam Balch gave several 
of his $10,000 stallion races at the Beacon; a 
notable one was between Santa Claus and 
Wedgewood in 1881. David H. Blanchard, 
too, gave several noted races at the old track, 
one of which was a $10,000, 2:17 trot, the 
first event of the kind having payments made 
on the instalment plan. This race was won by 
Edwin Thorne, who defeated Clingstone, 
Helena, Santa Claus, Fannie Witherspoon, 
Parana, and Humboldt. 

The last great race of importance at Beacon 
Park was the stallion race, which created so 
much talk, between Alcryon and Nelson. This 
was in the early nineties. 

A few years later the property was pur- 
chased by the Boston & Albany Railroad, for 



use as freight yards. Beacon Park was never 
as fast as Mystic, Charter Oak or Narragan- 
sett, the tracks that were in the big Eastern 
Circuit, when the big meetings of the year 
came in June at the two Boston tracks. 

The Readville track was first known as 
the Norfolk Trotting Park, a half-mile track 
that was opened to the public in about 1867. 
For a number of years thereafter the Norfolk 
County Fair gave its exhibitions annually. The 
fair was principally supported by residents of 
Dedham. 

In the year 1872 J. Henry Nay located at 
Norfolk Park, and in later years was lessee 
of the property, which control he maintained 
until 1895, when the New England Trotting 
Horse Breeders' Association purchased the 
propertN' and constructed what is now known 
as Readville track. 

The opening of the mile track at Readville 
was the following year. In 1905 the State 
authorities stopped speculation on the racing 
events, the Breeders' Association up to this 
time running three meetings each year. The 
grandstand was destroyed by fire in 1907. 

Andrew ^^'elch purchased the property in 
1909, and the last public meeting held at the 
track was the Grand Circuit of 1912, except- 
ing one day of racing in 1914. 

While under the direction of Secretary 
Charles M. Jewett there were decided at Read- 
ville some of the banner racing events of the 
whole country, which included the IMassachu- 
setts. Blue Hill, Puritan and Neponset stakes, 
the great $20,000 Charley Herr-Cresceus race 
in 1902, the $50,000 American Trotting 
Derby of 1908, the largest money event ever 
known to the trotting turf, and which was 
won by Allen Winter. 

Referring to this Derby handicap, Mr. Jew- 
ett has said that while the public opinion was 
that it cost the Breeders' Association a con- 
siderable amount of money, yet the facts of 
the case are that it netted a profit of about 
$6,000, and this notwithstanding that charged 
to the event was the cost of the temporary 
grandstand and all other items possible, be- 
cause of a guarantee made by six of the di- 
rectors, when the race was instituted, that 
the loss, if any, would be equally divided be- 
tween them. 

Readville track at the present time ( 1914) 
is used only as a training ground. Mr. Welch, 
who still owns the plant, has contemplated 
selling the property to a land syndicate, and 
when this comes about, which will vindoubt- 
edly be at a sooner or later period, of course, 
Readville race track will have been doomed, 
and will go the wav of Mvstic and Beacon 
Parks. 

The Old Cambridge Park, near Porter's 
station, was a mile track. It was completed 



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about the year 1857. Among the trainers lo- 
cated there was the famous Dan Mace and 
Hiram Woodruff. Most of the races at the 
track were matches, frequently made over the 
bar at Porter's Hotel, which at that time was 
a famous road house. Soon after the close 
of the Civil War the Cambridge track was 
cut up into building lots. 

The South End Driving Park was, so far as 
known, the first of the tracks to be built in 
the vicinity of Boston. It was a half-mile 
course. It was opened to the public in 1852, 
and was located on the land now occupied by 
the Boston City Hospital. 

In 1855 "Uncle Jock" Bowen made his in- 
itial visit to Boston, bringing with him from 
Royalton, Vt., the trotter Tom Hyer, which 
he had named in a match race at the South 
End track, but the horse was taken sick and 
did not start, and a few days later "Uncle 
Jock" sold the gelding. 

The principal event at this course appears 
to have been the race Dan Mace won with 
Ethan Allen, on October 15, 1858, when, for 
a purse of $1,000, he defeated "Ard" Car- 
penter's Columbus Junior and John Pfifer's 
Hiram Drew. The time of the heats was 
2:37, 2:35, 2:33, the last one being consid- 
ered phenomenally fast. A gala crowd was 
present. Hiram Drew was a Maine bred and 
owned horse. Ethan Allen came from Ver- 
mont, and Columbus, Jr., from near Lake 
Champlain. 

Ethan Allen, at that time, was owned by 
Ned Maynard, a prominent Boston horseman, 
and had been trained for the race over the 
Cambridge track. The judges wore stove-pipe 
hats and "choker" collars, and from the ac- 
counts of the race there was repeated scoring, 
the crafty Mace playing his cards carefully 
to get the edge and vantage over his com- 
petitors. 

Sam Langmaid, a Cambridge dealer in 
horses, whenever he got hold of an animal 
which showed an inclination of possessing 
speed, would have him slipped over to the 
South End track and worked by "Uncle Jock" 
on the quiet. This track passed out of ex- 
istence in 1862. 



CH.APTER V 

"Uncle Jock" Bowen Had a Turf 
Career Filled with Adventure 

THE descendants of the present 
generation will place the name of 
the late J. J. Bowen in the history 
of the trotter along with the past 
great artists of the rein and sulky, 
Hiram Woodruff, Dan Mace, Johnny Mur- 
phv, etc. It is doubtful, too, if there 



ever lived a trainer who did so much to ad- 
vance the sport as "Uncle Jock." 

During his younger days in the sulky, 
when the idea was prevalent among turfites to 
evade a record as much as possible, and thus 
in many instances to drop races when 
the time was a little too fast, "Uncle Jock" 





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J. J. "UNCLE JOCK" BOWEN 
Veteran Trainer Behind Lester Boy, 2:22 1-2, the 
Last Horse He Ever Drove. Photo Taken 
at Readville Tracli 

was always taking these opportunities to 
"win." This quality was uppermost in the 
man's character, which, combined with strict 
honesty, placed him foremost among men of 
every calling 

"Uncle Jock" was well known to his friends 
as bluff of speech — a man who told what he 
knew was right, regardless of whom he an- 
tagonized. He never curried for friends or 
followers, but at that was true to anybody 
whom he thought his friend. He was one 
of those staunch characters so seldom found. 

In 1872 "Uncle Jock" drove Joe Elliott a 
trial over the Mystic track in 2:15 1-2. The 
performance pleased Robert Bonner, who 
owned the gelding, very much, as it was the 
fastest mile at the time ever trotted by i 1-4 
seconds. Other old-time turf stars handled 
by the veteran were Iron Age, 2:191-4; 
Tucker, 2:19; White Socks, 2:201-2; Jesse 
Hanson, 2:133-4; Pilot Knox, 2:193-4, with 
which he won the $10,000 Spirit of the Times 
stallion stake at Beacon Park in 1885 ; To- 
mah, 2:10; Refina, 2:08 1-2; Norvin G., 
2:091-4; Sclavonic, 2:093-4, etc. 

In the big $20,000 purse race at Buffalo in 
1873, "Uncle Jock" started Camors. Dan 
Mace won the event with Sensation. As 
both these horses went begging in the auc- 
tion pools and as Mr. Merrow and "Uncle 
Jock" played the small end heavily, they 
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Their winnings amounted to more than tirst 
money in the race. 

Speaking of Sea Foam, "Uncle Jock" said 
that she was the most cranky mare he ever 
handled. When being broken she got away 
from the man hitching her up, jumped into 
the Charles River with her harness on, and 
swam to the opposite bank. This was how 
she received her name. Once at Providence 
she was leading 25 yards from the distance, 
when she had one of her cranky spells and 
stopped when a half length inside the dis- 
tance, half turned around and kept tossing 
her head and backing, with the result that 
when the flag fell she had backed sufliciently 
to have it fall in her face, and she was de- 
clared distanced. 

At Prospect Park in 1872, "Uncle Jock" 
had Royal John in a race against a good 
field of horses, of which Charley Green was 
a pronounced favorite. Mr. Merrow played his 
horse to win from start to finish, much 
against the advice of his best friends, who 
thought him crazy to think that he had a 
chance When Royal John won it is said 
that the amount of bills was so large that 
JVIr. Merrow could not get the "wad" all into 
his pockets, and had to get a flour bag to 
carry the mone}' to his hotel. 

If all of the anecdotes relating to "Uncle 
Jock" were printed they would fill a good- 
sized book. A few will serve to illustrate 
his sterling qualities and immense bump of 
dry humor. That he was the friend of the 
young trainers was frequently attested by his 
acts when they most needed assistance. 
Along in the eighties a young man came to 
the M5'stic Park, and among his horses was 
a green colt that was barely broken. It was 
not long before the colt commenced to de- 
velop a lot of speed, which attracted the no- 
tice of the old trainers. One began to work 
up an acquaintance with the owner with the 
idea that he might induce him to take the 
colt away from the boy and, in this way, get 
him for himself. The owner was about per- 
suaded that this was the proper thing to do, 
but before acting thought he would ask 
"Uncle Jock" what he thought about shift- 
ing. 

Those who were near and heard the way 
that "Uncle Jock" laced it into the owner for 
even thinking of such a thing, said it was a 
caution. He reviewed how the young man 
had worked early and late to get the colt to 
make the improvement he had, and to think 
o{ knocking the boy in the head for doing 
well simply showed that he was an ingrate. 
It is well to remember that "Uncle Jock" had 
not spoken a dozen words to the one he was 
befriending — it was his inborn idea of justice. 



Another time the judges at Mystic had told 
a young trainer to give up his horse in the 
race, as he was not trying to win, and turn 
him over to another driver. "Uncle Jock" 
knew that the horse could go faster than he 
had, and it was a play of the betters who 
had backed him with the idea that they would 
complain to the of-ficials, and in this way 
make a killing without the young man get- 
ting a cent of the money. This "riled" him. 
Walking out into the stretch in front of the 
judges' stand he announced to them that 
they were taking down the wrong driver. 

"Which one do you mean?" the judges in- 
quired. 

"That four-year-old mare right there, and 
if you had any sense you wouldn't have to 
ask." 

"J\Ir. Bowen, you drive that mare then, 

and you, Mr. D , will turn her over to 

him," was the request given by the judges 
amidst plenty of excitement. The young 
trainer was unseated, too. 

True to his prophecy, "Uncle Jock" 
trimmed the party in the next three "heats, 
though the final heat was not till the follow- 
ing day. After it was over he then took the 
young trainer into a stall and gave him a 
stifif lecture, telling him that he had saved 
him that time, but if he wanted to get along 
it was a bad way to start by pulling horses. 
"Uncle Jock" drove out his own money, too, 
by winning. 

Did you know that "Uncle Jock" was the 
first driver to make a horse trot in two min- 
utes ' Well, he was, and this was how it 
happened. At Mystic he had trained for a 
"Canuck," a gelding that could go in about 
2:30 with a mighty effort, and aided by sev- 
eral of those gruff, rumbling "hey-yous" of 
the veteran reinsman. One pleasant fore- 
noon the owner showed up to see if it was 
worth while to keep on paying $15 per week 
on his trotter. It so happened that all he 
had was an ordinary everydav watch, but he 
sat in the grand stand with it in his hand, 
and watched the mile with the air of a Leavitt 
or a Salisburv. After they got back to the 
stall "Uncle Jock" asked : 

"Well, how fast did you get it?" 

"Wall." replied the owner, looking wise, 
"I'll tell you ; she go away quarter pass one, 
she come back seventeen minutes pass." 

"Ugh !" said "Uncle Jock," "if I could 
only get you to time for the rest of mv 
owners, T'd be the most popular trainer in 
the whole country." 

Thus appeared the original two-minute 
trotter. 

None could ever say that "Uncle Jock" 
was not a brave man ; in fact, it is doubtful 



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if he ever knew what fear meant, but one hot 
noon in June, at Mystic, he met with an ex- 
perience that surely startled him some. A 
youthful green boy from the country had 
been empfoyed by one of the trainers to as- 
sist in the stable. He had great plans of 
some dav working up to the position of a 
knight of the sulky. Some of the grooms 
saw the idea of having fun, and informed 
him that he was too heavy to drive, but if he 
would go into training he would likely get 
down to weight. To do this he would have 
to spend sonie time in one of the manure pits 
for a thorough steaming out. This day the 
horses had all been worked early on account 
of the heat, so the boys induced the green 
one to take his first course of sprouts. Op- 
posite to "Uncle Jock's" stable was the larg- 
est and hottest heap of manure. Into the 
very center of this, where the steam wns 
rising like smoke and the thermometer would 
register 130 degrees, was placed the student 
after he had undressed. Then the manure 
was again thrown about him till all that 
could be seen was from his chin to the tov 
of his head. The sweat was running down 
the boy's face in streams when "Uncle Jock 
happened to pass by. Somehow he glanced 
towards his manure heap, stopped with a 
start at the sight of a human head with the 
eves staring into his own. 

"Was it a case of murder," he thought, 
"and the head been thrown up there.-'" 

To examine further "Uncle Jock'" walked 
around the heap, and those eyes followed 
him.. Then he knew it was alive, so stopped 
again and said: 

"What in hell are you doing in there .•'" 

"I'm in training to make a jockey," came 
the replv. 

"Yer are, are ver? Well, you will have to 
get some brains first, I'm thinking, and if 
you don't get out of that pretty soon the 
grave diggers will get a job," and the veteran 
made his "own grooms get to work and dig 
him out. 

At Svracuse a prominent driver from one 
of the Eastern Middle States, that had cam- 
naigned his gelding in New England early 
in that season, attempted a blufT on "Uncle 
Jock." The latter was standing in the home- 
stretch chatting with "OUie" Woodard, of 
Boston, when up rushed the trainer with a 
threatening air and said: 

"Mr. Bowen. I understand that you have 
reported around that I pulled my horse at 
the Saugus July meeting?" 

"Uncle Jock" relieved himself of a mouth- 
ful of tobacco juice, in the meantime looking 
the trainer straight in the eye, and then 



pointedly replied: "Well, yer did, didn't 
yer?" 

"I don't know," said the trainer in a weak 
and surprised tone. 

"Yer don't know, eh ! Well, I know that 
you did." 

This was too strong for the trainer, who 
turned on his heel and got out of sight. 

For many years Lewis Whitaker, of Bos- 
ton, known as "Old Whit," and "Uncle 
jock" were the closest of friends, yet when 




LEWIS WHITAKER 

Patron and Comrade of "Uncle Jock" Bowen. 

Owner of Refina, 2:08 1-2; Jesse 

Hanson, 2:13 3-4, etc. 

together lioth were sure to get to quarreling 
like a couple of school boys. One evening 
in the dining room of one of the Dover, 
N. H., hotels, the discussion between the two 
was whether a pint of beans would swell to 
fill a two-quart bean pot. "Old Whit" de- 
clared that they would, while "Uncle Jock" 
was as firm in telling the former he had 
grown so old that he had become foolish to 
talk such rubbish. The argument kept the 
entire room in a howl of laughter. 

But when "Uncle Jock" had his pocket 
nicked at the Lexington meeting, "Old Whit" 
had his turn. He had remained to see the 
two weeks' meeting at Dover, and when the 
news came he said that "Uncle Jock" was 
not a safe person to carry money around. 
He was too old for one thing, and another 
was that he would insist in putting his money 
in his vest pocket, just because Sam Lang- 
maid always did when he was with him. The 
consequence was, "Whit" said, that he was 



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going to take what money "Uncle jock" 
would fetch back with him, and put it in 
the bank for safe keeping. As "Uncle Jock" 
was going to stop with him till after Thanks- 
giving, he would then each day hand to the 
latter a dollar for spending money. When 
"Uncle Jock" was informcil (if the arrange- 
ment, he said : 

"I'd like to see him get my mone>- ! Give 
me a dollar a day, eh ! Probably he thinks 
that a dollar would last me as long as it does 
him, and if it did it would last several days!" 

It is said that in the early days of Mystic 
"Uncle Jock" was in a race over that course, 
driving a horse heavily backed to win. He 
had won a heat, but another had three when 
he came to his stalls and ordered the boys 
to get his horse out into the air as soon as 
jiossible. 

"A\'hy, the race is over," said one of tlie 
grooms to the veteran. 

"Don't tell me that — I know m\- liusiness," 
was the answer made. 

Down to the judges' stand went "Uncle 
Jock" behind his horse when the heat of the 
other race on was over. Seeing none of the 
horses in his race on the track he asked the 
judges what the trouble was, and they laugh- 
ingly told him the event was completed. 
Immediately those in hearing distance set up 
a roar, but it did not disconcert "Uncle Jock" 
at all, for as he climbed out of the sulky to 
allow the bov to take the horse back to the 
stable, he grufiflv said : 

"Well, that's all that beat me." 



CH.\PTER VI 



Lexington, Mass., Has the Honor 
of Having First Driving Club 

THE town of Le.vington, Mass., 
which occupied such a prominent 
place in the early history of our 
country, should be as well known 
as the home of many of the fore- 
most horsemen of bygone days. Just after 
the Civil War the leading gentlemen of the 
place organized the Lexington Driving Club, 
and built the half-mile track where William 
O'Neil has trained his horses for many years. 
The race course was completed in 1865, the 
year before Mystic track. 

The members of that old driving club 
were James S. Monroe, who owned among 
others the good old-time trotting stallion, 
Lexington, which Bob Flanders campaigned, 
and Colonel William A. Tower, who always 
had the best to be bought for road purposes, 
his last horse being Argentine, 2:21 1-4. 



It was at Air. Tower's stable that Luther 
Ames, the well-known trainer, first started. 
He was at Mystic Park for several years, and 
afterward had charge of B. D. Whitcomb's 
stock farm at Stratham, N. H. Colonel 
Tower's son, Richard, was a noted amateur 
whip in Boston. 




\VI! I IAN! O.NEIL 
Who is Located at the Lexington Track 

Others of the old members were Major 
Lorin W. Muzzey, a veteran of the rebellion, 
and at the time the owner of several good 
campaigners ; Lyman Stratton, later a mer- 
chant of Concord, N. H., William Witcher, 
who had the chestnut trotter Romeo, with 
which he took great pleasure of winning a 
race every year at the Middlesex County 
Fair at Concord; Frank Alderman, long 
known as one of the best colt educators in 
the state, and whose son. Dr. Harry Alder- 
man, is now the leading veterinarian of the 
town ; John Cummings, at that time the larg- 
est leather manufacturer in the state ; John 
E. Dodge, a veterinary dentist in Boston, 
and who was one of the first trainers at the 
track; Colonel Eben Stone and George B. 
Pierce, who owned farms near the track ; the 
latter for a number of years owned Tom 
Patchen. Then there was the old village 
blacksmith, William Ham, who always had 
a trotter, as did later his sons, Walter and 
Joseph Ham. 

The next driving clubs in Greater Boston, 
that we have note of, were organized in the 
early part of 1882. They were known as the 
South Boston Driving Club and the East 
Boston Driving Club. The principal object 



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of these organizations was, apparently, in 
holding interclub meets at Beacon Park a 
couple of times each year. After a few years 
these clubs ceased to exist. 

Nothing more was done in the forming of 
driving clubs until January 25, 1899, when 
the Gentlemen's Driving Club of Boston was 
organized with the object of building a 
$10,000 clubhouse at Readville track, and 
the holding of matinee races at the same 
place. The officers of that club were: Presi- 
dent, Albert S. Bigelow ; vice-presidents, J. 
Malcolm Forbes, Col. J. E. Thayer, George 
E. Perkins ; treasurer, Frank G. Hall ; secre- 




T. LEE OUIMBY 
Secretary G. D. C. 1899-1914 (inclusive), and Sec- 
retary-Treasurer of League of Amateur 
Driving Clubs 

tary, T. Lee Quimby ; directors, George B. 
Inches, E. C. Swift, Harry Burnett, Charles 
Whittemore, John Shepard and B. F. Button. 
An initiation fee of $100 was one of the mo- 
tions passed at the meeting. This club 
held matinee races in the Summer months up 
to the close of 1913. 

Somerville was early in the field in the 
revival of matinee clubs, catching the fever 
through the construction of the Charles 
River Speedwav, which was expected to be 
opened in the Summer of 1899. In January, 
of that vear, it was organized, with the fol- 
lowing list of officers: President, W. F. Al- 
meder ; vice-president, George AI. Davis: 
secretary, H. B. Furlong: treasurer, H. W. 
Litchfield : directors, L. H. Brown, R. D. 
Wentworth, Fred Preston, Bard Palmer and 
William Barstow. Though the Somerville 



Driving Club started out with brilliant pros- 
pects, yet only for a few years did it survive, 
internal dissension being the reported cause 
of its dropping out of e.xistence. 

Another club among the list of those that 
have since outlived their usefulness, was the 
Shav/mut Driving Club, which was instituted 
by the business men of the South End Dis- 
trict of Boston on March 15, 1899. Follow- 
ing the election of officers a petition was 
opened asking the Boston Park Commission- 
ers to set aside a strip of ground on the 
southerly side of Franklin Field to be used 
for a speedway. The officers of the club 
were : President, E. A. Pickard ; vice-presi- 
dent, Charles B. Wooley; treasurer, A. G. 
Robinson ; secretarv, A. L. Stark ; directors, 
A. G. Robinson, 'E. A. Pickard, M. A. 
Nevens, B. W. Stark, A. W. Davis, H. A. 
Haven and A. L. Stark. The club started 
with the membership of about eighty, but 
<vith the organization of the Dorchester 
Driving Club a few months later, the active 
members of the Shawmut concluded that they 
could better aid in getting a speedway at 
Franklin Field by joining with the larger and 
stronger, though younger, club in Dorches- 
ter and, therefore, they abandoned the Shaw- 
mut Driving Club. 

It was the same year, too, that the 
Jamaica Plain Driving Club was formed. 
Outside of holding a few matinees, and some 
of its members racing their horses in the 
Electric Light meets at Combination Park, 
the club never amounted to a great deal. 

A little different from the driving clubs 
mentioned was an organization formed on 
December 2, 1898, called the Boston Road 
Drivers' Association : the object being to 
keep in good condition the Beacon Street 
boulevard for sleighing, and that the associa- 
tion appoint a committee to meet the ]\Ietro- 
politan Park Commissioners and confer on 
the racing and driving rules, to be enforced 
when the Charles River Speedway, then un- 
der construction, was completed. The dues 
were fixed at $5, and Randolph K. Clarke 
was elected secretarv and treasurer. 

In this connection it is well to state that 
the Charles River Speedway was opened to 
the public on September 11, 1899. It is a 
matter of history that when Superintendent 
John Gilman threw open the gates a race 
was on between several of the well known 
drivers of Boston to be the first to drive a 
horse over the speedwav. Randolph K. 
Clarke, with Randolph K., took the lead 
closelv followed bv Tames Doolev with War- 
ren F., just behind them was C. H. Belledeu 
driving Kentucky Star, and then E. H. 
Pritchard close up with Alvin Swift. Mr. 



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Clarke maintained his advantage to the half, 
when Mr. Belledeu, who had been slowly 
gaining, passed him and held the party the 
balance of the distance. J\lr. Clarke finished 
second, and Mr. Pritchard, third, a half- 
dozen lengths away. Mr. Belledeu held a 
watch and reported that Kentucky Star paced 
the mile for him in 2:12 1-2. 

Now came a new driving club in Boston, 
that was conceived, secured fifty-three mem- 
bers, and then never happened, the promot- 
ers giving up the ghost in disgust. 

It was in February, 1901, that some of the 
leading road drivers of Greater Boston, 
believing that the near future would 
see the passing of Beacon Street 
boulevard for use in snow racing, 
which would compel the local horsemen to 
use the Charles River Speedway, began the 
agitation for a driving club at the speed- 
way. In the two years since the speedway 
had been opened little attention had Ijeen 
paid to it, though the Metropolitan Park 
Commissioners had always been ready to put 
it in first-class condition for fast v^'ork when 
there was snow. However, the local road 
drivers had so little use for the speedwav 
that the Commissioners had decided to close 
it the Winter of 1901. The men at the head 
of the contemplated organization were: John 
E. Thayer, A. S. Bigelow, George F. Leonard, 
Charles H. Belledeu, Louis Robeson, H. O. 



Aldrich, W. D. Hunt, John Shepard and 
Randolph K. Clarke. The initiation fee was 
placed at $20, with the annual dues $10. It 
was named the Metropolitan Driving Club. 

It was thought by the promoters that the 
drawback to the use of the speedway was 
the lack of a suitable clubhouse and stables 
in the near vicinity, which would give the 
members a chance to rest and cool out their 
horses after having them in the races. The 
plans for a very handsome clubhouse and 
stables were photographed in the club pro- 
spectus and mailed to every horseman in 
Greater Boston. Not only this, but one of 
the Park Commissioners, Edwin U. Curtis, 
even went so far as to bond land adjacent to 
the speedway, which he was able to secure 
below its market value, and on which it was 
proposed to build the clubhouse and stables. 

W. D. Hunt was elected to be first treas- 
urer of the money secured from the intend- 
ing members, and to open a campaign of 
inducing the horsemen to enroll themselves 
with the club. Each of the ones named in 
the enterprise did valiant labor for the cause, 
but after three months of earnest endeavor, 
Mr. Hunt was obliged to report that he only 
received fifty-three paid subscriptions for 
membership, which caused the promoters of 
the club to vote it was absolutely useless to 
exert themselves longer in so fruitless a 
cause. 




KENTUCKY STAR, 2:08 1-2 (Winning in the Homestretch) 

He Was Famous for Having a Wonderful Burst of Speed the Last Two Furlongs of His Races, and Was 

the First Horse to Step Over the Charles River Speedway. Owned and Driven by C. H. Belledeu 



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CHAPTER VII 

Nut Boy Fooled the Talent When 
He Won the Classic Transyl- 
vania Stake 

NL'T BOY, 2:07 1-4, the sensation- 
al trotting gelding of the sea- 
son of 1906, when he was the 
leading money-winning trotter 
and captured no less than five 
of the important stake events, the classics 
being the RIassachusetts, Charter Oak, Ohio, 
Transylvania and Walnut Hall, was very 
closely identified with the Dorchester Driv- 
ing Club. 

Foaled in 1896, the property of A. C. 
Barnes, Taylorsvillc, III, he was sired by 
Nutpine, 2:151-4, and was out of Grace 
Smuggler, by Smuggler, 2:151-4. As a 
four-year-old he was sold to Dr. Spaulding 
of Decatur, 111., under the name of Benjaline. 
The gelding was used by Dr. Spaulding's 
son on the road and found so rank and so 
erratic that he had to be run against a build- 
ing to stop him. Young Spaulding got tired 
of the fun, and the horse was purchased by 
a dealer named Bates, of Richmond, Ya.. He 
in turn disposed of the animal to a man who 
worked in a locomotive works at that place, 
and for a season was driven on the road. But 
the gelding's disposition, did not improve 
and he fell into the hands of J. C. Smith, a 
Riclimond, Va... horseman, who sent him to 
Richard P. Souther, of Dorchester, who used 
him on the road and Franklin Field Speed- 
wav. Thoueh Souther found that the geld- 
ing had plenty of speed, yet he was so un- 
rnqnagppble that he sent him back to Smith. 
That Winter (1903) in the consignment of a 
Mr. Carter, of Richmond, he was sent to the 
Old Glory sale under the name of Tngraham. 
He was purchased by John H. Shults, of 
Shultshurst Farm, who thought he was get- 
ting a mare. AVhen he found out his mis- 
take, he had the gelding resold, Paul Con- 
nellv. of Philadelphia, being; the purchaser. 

After running awav and nearly killing 
Henry I.ongstreet, of Philadelphia, the geld- 
ing was put up for sale at the Philadelphia 
bazaar and sold to Eugene Rventhaler. and 
he resold him to Thomas S. Young. He is 
alleged to have run awav with several driv- 
ers and Young sold him at an auction to 
William MacFarland. who s-ot Walter Davis 
to train him and while showing extreme 
sDeed. he was so headstrong and rank thai 
IMacFarland soon became disgusted and put 
him up at auction under the name of Nut 
Boy. All of these parties were Philadelphia 
horsemen, but the gelding now left that city. 



havnig been purchased by B. F. Slater, of 
Crondale, Pa., without a guarantee of any 
kind. 

The reformation of Nut Boy really began 
with the ownership of Slater, who drove him 
for a year about five to ten miles daily to 
his place of business, and in kind hands the 
gelding became quiet and gentle and showed 
such speed that Slater thought he would 
make a race horse. Not wishing" to enter the 
business of racing horses, however. Slater 
finally prevailed upon George Hindemeyer, 
of Philadelphia, to buy the gelding for $500. 
This was on May 8, 1905, and Nut Boy was 
taken to Belmont track, where Stote Clark 
drove him a quarter right off the cars in 33 
seconds. On May 25, Clark took the horse 
to Point Breeze track and C. N. Payne, af- 
ter having him four days, drove him a quar- 
ter in 32 seconds, and to the half in i :o3. 
That season Payne started Nut Boy in 
twelve races over the half-mile tracks, win- 
ning nine of them, and giving him a record 
of 2 :i5 1-4. Late that Fall (1905) he was sold 
to John H. Crabtree, of Boston, and his 
sister, "Lotta," for $5,000. 

Nut Boy, when taken in hand by Mc- 
Henry early in the campaign of 1906. still 
had the reputation of being thoroughly un- 
reliable, liable to break, and extra liable to 
be distanced when he did leave the trot. But 
McHenry had transformed the gelding 
as to manners and had won six 
races with him before Lexington was 
reached, among them the Massachusetts and 
the Charter Oak, dropping him from the 
2:16 class, in which he was eligible to start 
when "the man from Freeport" took him, 
until he was in the 2 :o8 trots for the big 
money. But in spite of these triumphs there 
was doubt in some people's minds about his 
winning the Transylvania, and a combina- 
tion of circumstances served to accentuate 
that feeling. 

Solon Grattan. which held the record for 
three heats on a half-mile track, came down 
from Chicago with plenty of backing on the 
stren.gth of a trial he had shown, and in the 
early pools more than once sold even with 
X'ut Boy. But the big play was on Mack 
^lack. which at Columbus had forced out 
Xorman B. in 2 :o7 3-4, 2 :o6 3-4. 2 :o7 3-4. 
He had been bought on the eve of the Tran- 
sylvania by Boston men who started to "win 
him out'' in that race, they puttinfir up a new 
driver. Moreover, at Cincinnati, !\Iack Mack 
had won the second heat of a race from Nut 
Boy in 2 :o8. and thirdly, at Hartford Nut 
Boy had been beaten a third heat in 
2:oQi-4. although by the conditions of the 
race (which ended there) he was the winner. 
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couple (if weeks previous to the Lexington 
meeting, and was known to have none too 
good legs. 

And so Mack Alack, later the sole property 
of George A. Graves, of the Metropolitan 
Driving Club, was the choice. There was big 
selling, many of the pools aggregating $1,- 
500, and on account of the peculiar angles 
there was plenty of talk. When the horses 
were being warmed up for the Transylvania, 
and Nut Boy had finished his final prelimi- 
nary heat, a friend of ]\IcHenry's, who was 
so close to him he could talk freely on deli- 
cate subjects without arousing the blazing 
temper the great driver had, met him just 
as he came through the gate after dismount- 
ing from the sulky. 

■'They tell me you're going to cheat this 
afternoon with Xut Boy," was the friend's 
salutation. 

]\IcHenry's face assumed a look that was 
half smile and half sneer. Then he pointed 
to Nut Boy, which was being led to the 
stable. "There he is," said McHenry, "and 
he'll win. And let me tell you something 
more — I won't drive him two hundred yards 
in the whole race." 

And he didn't, for over a slow track, on a 
cold day. Nut Boy fairly rambled three heats 
in 2 :o8, 2 :o7 1-4, 2 rcx), while Mack Mack's 
positions were 11, 7, 2, Emboy, a sprinter, 
getting second money with 2. 3, 9 to his 
credit. Nut Boy, over that slow track and 
on that cold day, equaled his record, and he 
never was straight. "He was good today." 
McHenry said after the race, "and I thought 
he would be. A lot of people have got the 
idea that horse isn't game, and some others 
think 2 :o7 w'ill hold him. Why, he could 
have beaten 2 :o6 right over this track today, 
and he was a sure 2 :o5 trotter, good day and 
track. 

"Well, Nut Boy is a case of where a rest 
beat training all to pieces. I saw what went 
on in the betting for the Transylvania, and I 
knew what some people figured was coming 
ofif, but did not consider it any part of my 
business to talk about the race before it was 
trotted. But just the same I thought it was 
the surest thing in the world that Nut Boy 
-would beat that field. He outclassed every 
other horse in it so far it was ridiculous to 
talk about beating him — it w^as a sure 2 :o5 
horse against some 2:08 ones." 

During the Winter of 1906-7 Nut Boy ran 
in a large box stall and yard at the Crabtree 
Farm, in Neponset. But the forward leg 
that had bothered him the Fall before was 
still in such bad shape when the training sea- 
son came around, that it was thought best to 
fire and blister the leg and give it a year's 
rest. In 1908 he was sent to Bob Proctor at 



Ixeadville, but after a little work the leg 
again showed symptoms of weakness, and 
he was sent back to the farm, where he was 
allowed to run loose till 19 10. 

That year "Lotta" Crabtree advertised a 
closing-out sale of the live stock at the farni, 
but when the day arrived, she refused to 
have Nut Boy put up for the high dollar. 
Later, however, P. O'Hearn, afterwards 
Building Commissioner of Boston under ap- 
pointment of Mayor Curley, succeeded in 
buying Nut Boy from "Lotta," and the next 
few seasons he was the bearcat among the 
trotters on the Franklin Field Speedway, as 
he proved his "class" when pitted against 
rivals from the Dorchester Driving Club. 
Nut Boy displayed his immense speed one 
afternoon in 1912 by trotting a heat in i :oi, 
which at present (1914) is still the record 
for all trotters over the Franklin Field course, 
it having tied the mark made by Ralph 
Wick, of I :oi, on July 8, 191 1. 

Nut Boy was disposed of by Mr. O'Hearn 
at the Old Glory sale in New York, the Fall 
of 1913, he passing to the ownership of a 
New York horse dealer called "Big Charley." 



CHAPTER \Tn 

Angus Pointer Was Well Crowned 
"King of All Pacers" 

KING of them all." This was the 
mantle that by common consent 
of both horsemen and the great 
sport-loving public rested on 
Angus Pointer, 2 :oi 3-4, the 
season of 1907. Week after week the fastest 
pacers in the world tackled him in the free- 
for-alls in the Grand Circuit from Detroit to 
Lexington and, outside of the opening meet- 
ing at Detroit, the story was always the same 
— Angus Pointer won. 

His record since making his debut at the 
Canadian ice races in 1904, and turf battles 
later compared with the best campaigners 
the world has produced in all the history of 
light harness horse racing. He had every 
(luality of a race horse, for not only was his 
speed sufficient, but he was the one rare 
equine that could be relied upon over any 
sort of a track. It made no difference to 
him whether it was a two-lapped one. a mile 
proposition, the footing like a billiard table 
or deep in mud or sand, he was there with 
"the goods" when turned for the word. 

Angus Pointer was bred by W. H. 
Buchanan, Kemptville, Ont., and sired by 
Sidney Pointer, 2:07 1-4, out of Jane (dam 
of Annie Sprague, 2:21 1-2), by Grant's 
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George E. Whitney, Enfield, N. H., and 
trained and driven by Ed. Sunderlin the sea- 
sons of iyo6-7. His winnings down the big 
line for 1907 were $7,730, making him the 
second largest money winner of the year in 
the pacing division. 

It is so well known how he took the word 
in nineteen races, winning eleven in 1904, 
and was first nine times out of thirteen starts 
in 1906, that space would be ill used in 
enumerating them here. In his campaign of 
1907 outside of Detroit, he headed the sum- 
mary in nine straight races, losing his initial 
start to Baron Grattan, at Detroit, in 
2:03 1-4, 2:04 1-4, 2:07, when he finished 
second. 

His opponents down the line were Argot 
Boy, Baron Grattan, Gratt, Boliver, Ecstatic, 
Nervolo, Audubon Boy, Phalla, Gallagher 
and Rudy Kipp, he meeting one or the others 
at different places. His best money-winnmg 
race was the Park Brew $5,000 stake at 
Providence. He went his fastest two-heat 
race at Syracuse, the time being 2:02 1-2, 
2:01 3-4. The then record for the fastest 
three heats by a pacing gelding he earned at 
Readville. 

All of his nine winning races were taken in 
straight heats, with the sole exception of 
Columbus, when the assistant trainer of the 
Whitney stable, W. W. Bowser, elected 
to drive him, and Angus Pointer made the 
only break of the year, losing the opening 
trip to Gallagher. Myron iVIcHenry was 
then asked to take the reins and little trouble 
had he gaining the victory. Audubon Boy, 
in the second heat at Lexington, gave him 
the severest test, it looking when nearing 
the wire that the champion was beaten, but 
McHenry rallied him with whip and voice, 
Audubon Boy went to a break, and the race 
was over. 

In order to place another gem in the 
string of conquests of Angus Pointer he was 
started over the Watertown, N. Y., half- 
mile track and placed the season's mark at 
2 :o6 1-4 for two-lap tracks. 

He was passed through the Old Glory 
sale in New York that Fall, but was re- 
turned to his old stable, being bid in for 
Mr. Whitney for $7,400, though a represen- 
tative of Lotta Crabtree ran the bidding to 
a hundred less than that sum. Soon after 
the return of the noted gelding to Enfield, 
he died from pneumonia, the residt of a cold 
caught en route from New York. 



A man ought to do as well as a horse ; I 
wish all men did do as well. — Roe. 



CHAPTER IX 

Famous Road Drivers Whose Horses 
Were Kept at Sawyer's Stable 

IT was with regret the old-time horse- 
men and road drivers of Boston noted 
the demolition of Sawyer's old board- 
ing and baiting stable at the corner of 
Chestnut and Brimmer Streets, in the 
West End, for modern dwelling houses, for 
a generation ago, almost any afternoon, any- 
where from twenty-five to thirty men, re- 
puted to be millionaires or very near to n, 
could be seen donning their driving togs and 
starting out from Sawyer's for an afternoon 
spin with their trotters, boarded at the stable. 
Many of them drove in daily in the morning 
from the suburbs, put up their rigs at Saw- 
yer's, went down to their offices and returned 
for their teams to go out over the Mill Dam, 
the then noted speedway of Boston, and 
thence on to their homes. 

Among that class were: Henry M. Whit- 
ney, H. P. Cabot, W. L. Badger, Dr. Weld. 
William Weld and John M. Forbes, once 
mariner, later merchant in the Oriental trade. 
He is described as usually coming in from 
Milton on horseback, habitually carrying an 
umbrella in anticipation of a possible shower. 

Other transients of later days were Hon. 
Robert Bacon, later Ambassador to France, 
and Mr. and Mrs. John L. Gardner, when 
their city house was closed. The Gardner 
equipage and livery is said to have been one 
of the finest that ever came into the stable. 
Another outfit of equally high class was that 
of Mrs. George W. Wales, of Beacon Street. 

J. Reed Whipple, of hotel fame, kept his 
horses at Sawyer's. The story is told how he 
purchased at auction the famous trotting 
mare Reina, 2:12 1-4, formerly belonging to 
John Shepard, who had sold her under the 
impression that her days of glory were ended. 
Mr. Whipple turned his purchase over to 
Sawyer to be put in prime condition, and un- 
der the fostering of the experts of the stable 
Reina "came back," and one day, when the 
sleighing was good, Mr. Whipple concluded 
to try his new trotter. 

He drove leisurely out to Coolidge Corner, 
it bping of the period when the snow racing 
was over the boulevard from that point to 
St. Mary Street, where he met John Shep- 
ard, John W. Wheelwright and a few other 
acquaintances that had speed hitched to run- 
ners, and dropped them a hint that he would 
not be averse to a brush. 

The speed of the rejuvenated Reina proved 
too much for the hotel man's nervous system, 
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he declared that he would never take her 
out again. John Shepard then repurchased 
the mare, and not a trotter in Boston that 
Winter was capable of taking her measure 
the length of the 1)oulevard. 

Among the regular boarders at Sawyer's 
were the late Col. Henry S. Russell, owner 
of the famous Home Farm in Milton, where 
were kept for years the celebrated stallions, 
Smuggler, 2:151-4; Fearnaught, Jr., 2:26, 
etc. (Col. Russell was later Fire Commissioner 
of Boston), Hon. George von L. Meyer, Secre- 
tary of the Navy ; Eben S. Draper, former 
Governor of the State, and the late Gover- 
nor Wolcott. 

Commodore George Perkins, the father 
of Mrs. Larz Anderson, while he had his 
own private stable in Newbury Street, quite 
frequently dropped in at Sawyer's to chat 
horse with his cronies. All old-timers can 
remember well the Winter he had the boss of 
the snowpath in the trotting mare, Thetis, 
2:161-4. This was in 1894, and the season 
before the daughter of Mambrino Wilkes, 
2 :28 3-4, had proved in her races that she 
was much better than a 2:10 trotter. 

There was Major Henry L. Higginson, one 
of the patrons, who was founder of the Sym- 
phony Orchestra, and he usually kept several 
trotters, among the number being Parana, 
2:191-4. George B. Inches boarded during 
the Winter months at Sawyer's, the stallion 
Pedlar, 2:181-4, and other trotters. S. B. 
Dana had Arab, 2:15, previously owned by 
John Shepard. George F. Fabyan had Jean 
Valjean, 2:14, with which John Cheney won 
many creditable races. Dr. F. P. Sprague 
had I'^irst I.ove and Almira, whose respective 
records were 2:22 1-2 and 2:24 1-4. He often 
drove them in an extension-top carryall of 
a pattern of 100 years ago. 

Then there were Edward P. Whitney, 
partner of J. Pierpont Morgan, who always 
had a fine trotter ; F. H. Prince, son of 
Mayor Prince, who had a string of thorough- 
bred racers, among them King Tom and 
Sherrod, but for his own riding had a fast 
trotter ; John Wright, who now lives in 
France and has a racing stable there, kept 
a number of racing ponies there, such as are 
now known as polo ponies. 

The passing of the old home for trotters 
emphasizes the decadence of road driving 
from what it was up to ten years or so ago. 
for at Sawyer's is said to have been boarded a 
greater number of high-class trotters from 
ten to thirty years ago than any other stable 
in Boston, and it was said to have been good 
at one time for an income of $30,000 a year. 

The stable was built about 38 vears ago bv 
Ebenezer Johnson, a mason, and John Mann, 



a Washington Street ribbon dealer at that 
time, two extensive speculators in real estate. 
Its first lessee was Stephen Thuolt, who was 
a famous Boston riding instructor from 
1856 to 1866. Col. Thuolt was a Hungarian 
revolutionist of 1848, who fought under 
Kossuth, and, like the latter, was obliged to 
fly for his life to foreign lands after Russia 
intervened and put down the rebellion in 
Hungary. Thuolt first went to England, 
where he was reduced to the condition of a 
common day laborer and transported stones 
in a wheelbarrow to build a sea wall. 

Soon after his arrival in Boston he 
aroused the interest of some of the richest 
and most influential families, who induced 
him to establish a riding school for the in- 
struction of their sons and daughters. John 
Nash, who had the care of Col. Thuolt's 
horses from the time the riding school was 
started, 58 years ago, and later performed 
the same function for Major Henry L. Hig- 
ginson, is still living in the West End district 
of Boston. 

Thuolt was a tall and handsome man, and 
during his early years here was a protege of 
members of the Lowell family, while among 
his other particular friends were the Forbes, 
Bigelows and Hoopers. These men of social, 
political and diplomatic influence obtained a 
pardon for him from the Austrian Govern- 
ment, and Thuolt was allowed to return to 
his home after eighteen years of exile. 

Alsom Garcelon. for a generation the best- 
known stable keeper in Boston, and at one 
time proprietor of fourteen or fifteen such 
establishments, succeeded Col. Thuolt in 
1869, purchasing the property and building a 
three-story addition with stalls for one hun- 
dred horses. Garcelon came to Boston about 
eighty years ago from Lewiston, Me., and 
was a near relative of the late Governor 
Garcelon of Maine, and a descendant of a 
Huguenot refugee, contemporary with the 
Faneuils. His first stable was in Franklin 
-Street, his second in Bedford Street. He 
furnished the horses and carriages for the 
Prince of Wales, afterward Iving Edward 
\'ll, when lie visited Boston in i860, al- 
though the handsome trotting horse, Black 
Prince, ridden by the Prince at the military 
parade on the Common, and later the model 
for Thomas Ball when he made the eques- 
trian statue of George ^^'ashington for the 
Public Garden, came from the stable of the 
Hon. Timothy" Bigelow Lawrence, only a 
rew doors away from Garcelon's, on Chest- 
nut Street. Garcelon made a great deal of 
money, but losing it in real estate, had very 
little when he died, in 1881. 

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ed ill the Chestnut Street staole and ran it 
twenty-four years, or tiU his death about ten 
years ago. His son, S. Gordon bawyer, then 
managed it three years and sold it to Frank 
Donovan, who, when the property was 
sold for improvement, had to move a 
few doors up Chestnut Street. In the day of 
road driving in Boston there worked at Saw- 
yer's, besides Nash, already mentioned, such 
men well known in the care of old-time trot- 
ters as Martin Ouigley, Patrick Loftus, bet- 
ter known as "Brock," for having worked so 
long for ''Ham" Brock, and Thomas F. 
Wakh. 

Right across the way from Sawyer's stable 
was the famous Joseph F. Pray, the sulky 
builder, who turned out the light road 
wagons and buggies which were the delight 
of the gentlemen road drivers who boarded 
their horses at Sawyer's. 

Paran Stevens, for many years the prince 
of Boston hotel men, first proprietor of the 
New England House, then of the Revere and 
the Tremont houses, had for many years a 
private stable for his trotters at the corner 
of Chestnut and Brimmer Streets, and about 
the time of the advent of Sawyer's the 
Stevens stable was taken by Mr. Prav for 
his carriage factory, where he lemained for 
more than a score of vears. 



CHAPTER X 

How "Long Shot" Cox Worked 

From the Bush Rings to a Star 

Grand Circuit Driver 

FROM a farmer's boy, born in Ep- 
som, N. H., to one of the greatest 
trotting horse drivers and trainers 
in the world, is the achievement of 
Walter R. Cox in the forty-si.x 
years of his life. To those not in the know- 
ing, Epsom is merely a dot on the map near 
Pittsfield, and, so far as can be established, 
being the birthplace of Cox is its lone de- 
gree of fame in the country's history. 

The name of Cox is prominent in politics. 
Charles E., father of Walter, was warden of 
the New Hampshire state prison for a num- 
ber of years. His three brothers have made 
names for themselves in Massachusetts. Guy 
served the state in both branches of the Legis- 
lature. Louis was postmaster at Lawrence. 
Channing, the baby of the family is assured of 
being Speaker of the House in 1915. All three 
are lawyers. 

"Long Shot" is the eldest of the boys. 
When a year old his folks removed from 
Epsom to Manchester, where he attended the 



public schools, taking a two-year course m 
the high school. At thirteen he entered the 
butcher business, working for his father at 
rmining a cart. He was up in the morning at 
4, labored till school time, and at the close 
of school devoted his time to the shop. Sun- 
days he sang in the church choir. 

"Tell me of vour first race," I asked "Long 
Shot." 

"1 was fifteen when a Catholic picnic was 
held at the Manchester track. There was a 
trotting gelding named May Morning, which 




WALTER R. (Long Shot) COX 

the owner said I couki start in one of the 
races. I took the horse out of pasture a 
couple of weeks before the event and pulled 
off second money, netting $15. One thing 
in connection with this race Ell never forget. 
Just previous to starting the judges informed 
me that it was necessary that i should weigh 
[50 pounds. I weighed only eighty! Here 
was a nice pickle. I solved the problem by 
taking a bag and gathering enough stones 
to make up the difference. Then I attached 
the bag to the sulky. The race was won in 
2:48 3-4." 

"Tell us some more about your early turf 
career," I cersisted. 

"Well, between the age of eighteen and 
twenty-five I sold beef on the road for Ham- 
mond. This gave me time to tinker with 
horse racing at the Manchester track. The 
horses were owned by local butchers. Every 
Friday these men held races. I always had a 
mount, with varying success. 

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devote my time to training horses. In those 
days Jake Stone was using the Manchester 
track for Spring training. He was a suc- 
cessful winner. 1 had no horses good 
enough for the good half-mile tracks, and 
nobody will ever know with what admiration 
I watched Jake lead his fields of horses. 
1 thought him of more importance than the 
President of the United States. 

"However, along toward Fall I would 
gather up three or four of the fastest horses 
I was working and take in what was later 
known as the 'Cox Circuit.' This comprised 
the tracks at Warner, Canaan, Plymouth, 
Bristol and Greenfield. Canaan used to 
give a July 4 meet also. At that time I 
figured the meeting at Tilton, and other 
tracks of that kind, of Grand Circuit im- 
portance ! I'll say one thing, before 1 was 
through with 'Cox's Circuit' it was a ])retty 
slick sort of a driver and horse he had that 
could win a race from me." 

"What was your first mile track race?" 

"At Xarragansett Park, in 1893, 1 started 
a pacer named Rowdy Knox, 2:201-4. I 
took the horse there alone, swiping him and 
sleeping in the stall. Before the race I nearly 
wore out a watch timing the horses entered 
in my class, and the way they did step from 
the three-cjuarter pole to the wire brought 
tears to my eyes. I knew I wasn't even a 
dirty duce in a clean deck of cards. I didn't 
look very good in that race, trailing along in 
the rear guard.'' 

"Your first visit to New ^'ork was to drive 
for James Y. Gatcomb at Empire City Park 
in the Grand Circuit in 1903, was it not?" 

"I had been in New York once before. It 
was at the time Home Rule was winning 
match races in Manchester and Concord. I 
conceived the plan of slipping over to New 
York and buying a 'skinner' that would beat 
Home Rule and the rest of them. Getting 
to the big city I found that the auction was 
in Chicago. So I went over to Guttenbnrg 
and backed the runners. Played every race 
across the board — and lost. I scampered out 
of New York the next morning pretty quick. 
All I saw of the place was the one block I 
walked around and the car ride to Forty- 
second Street ferrv. 

"When I went to Xew ^'ork to drive for 
Gatcomb I didn't know the wa}' to Broad- 
way. That's a fact. In the afternoon I 
drove Prince of (Jrange, and in the field was 
Rhythmic and Fereno. That marked mv 
Grand Circuit debut. I won after losing the 
opening heat." 

From my personal knowledge, Cox is 
modest in stating his connection witli this 
race. The l)etting fraternity had a good 



opinion of Prince of ( )range to win the event, 
but when they saw a tall, lanky Yankee, un- 
known to all, mount the sulky, there was a 
rush to the betting ring to hedge the bets 
made on the gelding. This was Gatcomb's 
opportunity for getting on heavily at long- 
odds. That night all Broadway was ringing 
with the praises of the Yankee driver. In 
the clever way in which he had trimmed the 
wise men, and the shrewd drivers opposing 
him, Cox had made his name. 

Cox maintained his home stable in Man- 
chester, training his horses in the Spring 
over the Nashua, X. H., track, till the sea- 
son of 1905, when he selected Granite State 
Park, at l^over, for his training cjuarters. 

"As the seasons have passed, have you 
noted anv changes in the mode of race driv- 
uig f" 

"I should say so. The day of the driver 
going away from the wire rippity-bang has 
passed, unless laying all over the field in 
point of speed, which is seldom. Brains count 
more now in the sulky than ever. Time in 
racing has passed, it not being how fast the 
heats are, but the class of the horse that 
counts. Give me a 2:04 horse and I'll beat 
a 2 :C5 one in heats raced in from 2 -.O/ to 
2 :c8. Yes, and make him look cheap. In 
some part of the mile I'll take all the race 
out of that chap and finish practically alone." 

"Young drivers are coming up. What is 
your advice to them?" 

"Don't wait for a winning tomorrow 
when a victory can be earned today. Drive 
always to win, regardless of a record on the 
horse. Nobody ever made fame in the sulky 
that did not often ride in front ; even the 
driver coming in second is overlooked by 
the spectators and critics. It's the man in 
front who gets the glory, reputation, and 
finally the best horses in his stable. Be 
honest, and leave booze for the other fellow 
to handle." 

"What has been the increased cost of run- 
ning a campaigning stable in the past few 
years? Other things have gone up; most 
likely you have had the same experience." 

"It costs about twice as much to run a 
racing stable now as it did ten years ago. 
At that time it was nothing for a groom to 
care for three horses. Now a man is need- 
ed on each horse, with extra helpers on the 
day the animal races. Railroad and express 
bills have been jumped, hotel bills increased 
to quite an extent, and so along through 
the list. Today every horse has his chest 
fil'ed with boots and harness. Each horse 
has his own sulky. Ten years ago one sulky 
was used for all and one chest of boots was 
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"This shows the additional expense for 
each horse as well as the large increase in 
luggage that has to be carted around. The 
man who said 'The luxury of today is the 
necessity of tomorrow,' hit the nail squarelv 
on the head." 

That it is a pretty tough proposition to 
skin "Long Shot" Cox at any game was 
proved one forenoon at the Nashua, N. H., 
track, when a combination of the trainers put 
up a job on him. They got a tall lanky na- 
tive to wager a couple of dollars with "Long- 
Shot" that he, the tall, lanky, weighed the 
most. To make the thing sure some of the 
boys wound strips of sheet lead around 
each of his legs, next to his drawers. "Long 
Shot" was a little afraid he was beaten on 
the proposition, so, unbeknown to all, he 
quietly adjusted a big block of lead on his 
shoulders, under his coat. Away they went 
to be weighed. 

"Long Shot" won the "darby," fetching the 
scales down to 183 pounds to his lanky op- 
ponent's 181 1-2. To watch the two return 
from the weighing-in process was most 
laughable. "Long Shot" was horribly round- 
shouldered, while his competitor walked like 
a rooster with frozen feet, at each stride 
bringing a foot up to an angle that would 
cause a prize-winning hackney to turn green 
with envy. 

And here is a reason why Cox never lifts 
his hat in response to grandstand plaudits. 
He has been pretty nearly the whole works 
in the New England for many seasons, and 
acquired a big following that has watched 
him with much interest. Everybody knows 
how he has made good, and it seems to be 
conceded that none of the star mechanics can 
outdrive him. 

Every time he wins he gets the glad hand, 
good and plenty — but he never seems to pay 
any attention to applause. A number of 
people have said : "^^'hat's the matter with 
that man? \Miy doesn't he tip nis cap to the 
grandstand?" 

Well, they just don't know what the mat- 
ter is. "Long Shot" would be tickled 
enough to do the Tommy Murphy act, but 
for one very embarrassing fact — though still 
comparatively a young fellow, his head is as 
bald as a pool-ball. Hence he prefers to 
keep his nice satin cap on in front of the 
grandstand. Can vou blame him ? 



CHAPTER XI 

"Happy Jack" Trout is Mine Host 
to Members of Metropolitan Club 

A HISTORY of the horsemen of 
Xew England, and Greater 
Boston in particular, would not 
be. complete without an ac- 
count of John Trout, known to 
his legion of friends as "Happy Jack" Trout. 
"Happy Jack" is dallying around the 
seventy year mark, and his eventful career 
has been largely spent in P)Oston and vicinity. 
The past eight years he has been identified 
almost entirely with the matinee sport, he 
having, on June I, 1906, taken charge of the 




\\'hat is a horse? A horse is an article in the 
sale of which you may cheat your own father 
without any imputation on your honesty or 
filial duty.— H. Smith. 



JOHN TROUT 

Metropolitan clubhouse at the Charles 
River Speedway, and a most e.xcellent host 
has he been to the members of that organi- 
zation. In the stable of the clubhouse it has 
been his duty to look after many of the fast- 
est horses raced in the matinees. 

"Happy Jack" achieved his greatest repu- 
tation as a driver and trainer through the 
gelding Anaconda, which was owned by Ed- 
win Rice, the well-known young sporting 
man of Boston. Trout gave Anaconda a 
record of 2 :oi 3-4, pacing, and, then, under 
the name of Knox Gelatine King, which an 
advertising concern in Xew York had given 
him after purchasing him from Mr. Rice. 
Trout gave him a trotting record of 
2:093-1- 

This is the fastest record for a double- 
gaited performer in the world. Previous to 



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Anaconda's feat of establishing a record of 
2 :oi 3-4 and 2 109 3-4, an average of 2 :o5 1-4, 
Jay-Eye-See held the double-gaited record at 
2:06 1-4 pacing, and 2:10 trotting, an average 
of 2:08 1-8. The difference of almost three 
seconds plainly shows the superiority of 
Anaconda. 

L-ooking back over the career of "Happy 
Jack," it is noted that he drove his initial 
race in 1856 with a raw-boned Canadian 
pacer, owned by his brother, that won the 
race in 3:01. Shortly after this he opened 
a livery stable near Flenington, N. J., and 
remained there until about 1870, when he 
campaigned a couple of horses through New 
York state. 

It was during this time that he met Alden 
Goldsmith and engaged to handle his Vol- 
unteer stock. While with Goldsmith he 
drove Driver, 2:19 1-4, and Huntress to her 
three-mile record of 7:21 1-4, that stood as 
the world's record for twenty-one years, when 
Bishop Hero, in 1893, reduced it to 7:19 1-4. 

In accomplishing the feat of trotting three 
miles in 7:21 1-4, Huntress made her first 
mile in 2 :28 3-4, the second in 2 126, and 
the third in 2:26 1-2, and the middle half of 
the third mile was stepped in i :og. This 
was a reduction of 11 1-4 seconds from the 
previous mark for that distance. The event 
took place at Prospect Park, Long Island, 
on September 21, 1872, and the betting odds 
were $1,000 against $250 that the trotting 
record of 7:321-2 would not be lowered. 

Trout remained with Goldsmith three 
years. Then he returned to his own home in 
New Jersey for a few weeks" visit, and, while 
there he met William Lovell, who proposed 
that he should go with him and drive the 
noted trotter, American (jirl, 2;i()i-2. That 
was the year of 1874. 

That Fall he hired out to John ?\Ierrow, 
of Boston, to train and drive his stable of 
campaigners. During the four years he was 
associated with Mr. Merrow he successfully 
raced, among others, the noted horse, 
Camors, 2:193-4, and Sea Foam, 2:241-2. 

In 187S Trout opened a public stable at 
the old Beacon Park. The years of 1885-6, 
he managed Beacon Park and it was in those 
days that the park had its liveliest times. 
The old Mill Dam road was the ]\Iecca for 
the local road-drivers during the sleighing 
season. Charley Perkins' roadhouse, the 
Hawthorne, St. Julien, the Albany, and other 
roadhouses were then open for the public to 
put their steaming horses under the sheds 
while they partook in the hotel of refresh- 
ments, both wet and solid, before a glowing 
fire. 

Beacon Park, too, was especially prepared 



tor racing i_)n the snow, and many were the 
match events decided every day, and, during 
the Summer season a large crowd would 
congregate every forenoon on the broad 
piazza, that faced the track, to watch the 
horses quartered at the park receive their 
work, and discuss the merits of their own 
horses. This frecjuently led to an argument 
between enthusiastic owners, which usually 
ended in each putting up from $100 to $500 
and racing for it right then. 

For a number of years Trout trained at 
Mystic Park, one of the best that he raced 
during that period being the pacing mare, 
Allen Maid, 2;if>i-2. He then successfully 
handled horses for Dr. Fowler of Moodus, 
Conn.; 1. H. Richardson, owner of the 
Thorndak Stock Farm, Andover, Mass.; 
Commodore (ieorge Perkins, Webster, 
N. H. ; and for Edwin Rice. 

In running the clubhouse for the members 
of the Metropolitan, "Happy Jack" is cer- 
tainlv in his right element. As a host he is 
always bubbling over with good humor, can 
tell a storv well, and has the magnetism that 
attracts friends. A day spent with "Happy 
Jack" was never lost. It only served to pro- 
long a man's lite in making him feel kinder 
to mankind. 



CHAPTER XII 
Trainer E. D. Either Who Made 
%m' Three World's Champions 

EDWIX D. HITHER was born in 
Charleston, Me., in 1851, and re- 
ceived his education in the schools 
of his native town. When seven- 
teen years of age Mr. Bither began 
an apprenticeship in the profession of which 
he has since become one of the most prominent 
members, and for three years he was asso- 
ciated with Foster S. Palmer of Bangor, Me., 
who brought out and developed General 
Knox. In 1871 ^Ir. Bither availed himself of 
Horace Greeley's advice and went West, and 
m 1875 he entered the employ of J. I. Case, 
Racine, Wis. 

In 1879 Mr. Case visited Kentucky and 
purchased of Col. West, of Georgetown, 
several colts and fillies, and largely owing to 
the advice of George Brasfield, a black 
youngster was included in the lot. How 
little any then present imagined the plain- 
looking black yearling was one day to be 
the reigning king of the turf, and the first 
trotter to put the magical figures — 2:10 — on 
the board. 

Sbortlv after this Mr. Case made another 
visit to Kentucky and this time purchased 



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of Major H. C. McDowell, three youngsters, 
Phallas, then a two-year-old, being among the 
number. 

In 1882, when he was four years old, Jay- 
Eye-See's first real work began, for pre- 
vious to that time he had never been sent a 




EDWIN D. EITHER 

full mile at speed. In 1883 he trotted seven- 
teen races, his winnings being $22,500. His 
campaign was one of the greatest on record, 
commencing at Louisville, Ky., on Mav 11, 
defeating Charley Ford in straight heats and 
continuing on through the circuit in an un- 
interrupted series of victories, closing at Chi- 
cago on October zt,. It was the most re- 
markal)le campaign ever made bv a five-vear- 
old. 

In 1884, Jay-Eye-See was started eight 
times and at Providence, R. I., on August i, 
he acquired his world renowned record of 
2:10. At Belmont Park, August 15, to beat 
2 :o9 3-4, he made two unsuccessful efforts, 
his time being 2:11 and 2:10 1-4, these being 
the fastest consecutive two miles then ever 
trotted or paced. 

Phallas made his appearance on the turf 
in 1883 and electrified the trotting world by 
winning the 2 :40 class at Cleveland, Ohio, 
June 5 and 6, his fifth heat being in 2:18 1-4. 
July T4 he defeated Adelaide and Index, and 
five days later trotted the memorable race 
against Majolica, Felix and Index, the first 
named winning the opening heat in 2:17, and 
Phallas the last three in 2:161-2, 2:20, 
2:21 1-4. At Cleveland, August i, Duquesne. 
who had just acquired a record of 2:173-4, 



and Phallas came together, the former win- 
ning the first heat in 2:191-4, and Phallas 
the next three in 2:15 1-2, 2:21 1-2, 2:17 1-2. 
In the second heat Phallas could have then 
easily beaten the best stallion record of 
2:15 1-4, had Either realized how fast he was 
going, and not taken the horse back when he 
found the heat safely won at the head of the 
stretch. After several more victories, the 
horse went into Winter quarters with a rec- 
ord of 2:13 1-2. 

In 1884 Phallas appeared severi times. First 
in Chicago, July 4. when he had a walk- 
over. On the 14th, at the same place, he 
met Catchfly, Clemmie G., and Fannie 
W'itherspoon, in which Catchfly started a 
great favorite, an'.l being a still greater one 
after winning the first heat in 2:193-4. 
P)ither now showed the backers of the favor- 
ite on how slender a foundation their hopes 
rested, as he sent Phallas to the front, trot- 
ting; the next three heats in 2:15 3-4, 2 :i6 3-4 
and 2:13 3-4, the latter being the world's stal- 
lion record and the fastest fourth heat ever 
trotted at that period. 

Phallas was again a great nurse in 1885. 
.\t Cleveland, July 4, he met the bay stallion, 
Ma.xy Cobb, who had acquired the record of 
2:131-4 at Providence, on September 30, 
1884. This was expected to prove the great- 
est race of modern times, but it w-as over 
when he reached the half-mile pole in the 
second heat, and Phallas put three straight 
heats to his credit. Later he met and de- 
feated Majolica in slow time, that game lit- 
tle gelding being in no condition for a bruis- 
ing race. Two defeats by Harry Wilkes, in 
the latter of which Phallas pulled up lame, 
ended the turf career of this famous horse, 
which was then retired to the stud. 

-After having been with Mr. Case for fif- 
teen }ears, ]\Ir. Either in 1890, severed his 
connections and associated himself with the 
.\llen Farm in Pittsfield, Mass. Here he 
secured control of what was destined to be 
another world's record-breaking performer in 
the stallion, Kremlin, who placed the record 
for entire horses at 2:081-4 at Xashville. 
Tenn., on Xovember 5, 1892, and one week 
later, at the same place, still further reduced 
the world's record to 2 :o7 3-4, the fractional 
time of the mile being in 0:32 1-4, i :03 1-4, 
I :3.S. and 2 :o7 3-4. 

Previous to this Kremlin had gathered to 
himself the $10,000 stallion race at Mystic 
l^ark, and the famous Transylvania stake at 
Lexington, Ky., where he met the highest 
classed field of horses that had ever heard the 
bell ring up to that time in the history of the 
trotting turf. He started in the race in the 
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event, and then grabbed uff tlie race in 
straight heats. 

The betting was heavy, the odds before 
the initial heat being as follows : Anderson's 
Nightingale, $65 ; Hamlin's Nightingale, 
$55; Kremlin, $50; Walter E., $30; Little 
Albert, $20; Hazel Wilkes, $15; Greenleaf, 
$15; and rest of the field, $10 and $5 each. 
In his memorable campaign it must be re- 
membered that Kremlin was but a five-year- 
old, and it was then considered a phenom- 
enal feat for a stallion to gain a world's 
stallion record at that age. All over the 
country the daily press had l)ig headlines 
on the front pages saying, ''Great is Krem- 
lin ! Great is Either !" 

Out on the coast, Kremlin had a most 
worthy opponent, in Stamboul, fighting to 
take from him the stallion crown. While 
Kremlin was performing in the l^almy air 
of Tennessee, Stamboul was considered as 
having a slight margin the better of him in 
the rare autumnal days of the Pacific coast 
and a kite-shaped track to travel over. 

Mr. Either was at the Allen Farm for five 
years and, besides the famous Kremlin, he 
campaigned for Wm. Russell Allen, the 
owner of that noted stock farm, the trotters 
Elista, 2:20 3-4; Erava, 2:14 1-2; Tom Ar- 
den, 2 :i6 1-4, etc. 

Another very prominent stallion cam- 
paigned by Mr. Either was Lynne Eel, 
2:10 1-2, which, besides winning many races 
in the hottest of company, captured two 
heats in a Transylvania stake. With Lady 
Geraldine, owned by Isaac Goff of Provi- 
dence, he won the Horse Review Futurity, 
the two-year-old filly going in 2:26 1-2. 
Later this mare gained a record of 2 :o8. 

In 1905 Mr. Either opened a public train- 
ing stable at Readville, he being the first train- 
er and driver to locate there after the con- 
struction of the track. Since that period 
he has devoted himself almost entirely to the 
development of matinee trotters, among 
those having been in his stable being Mack 
Mack. 2:08: Curta, 2:13 1-4; .AJondra, 2:18; 
Mike Agan. 2:10 1-2, and Eronson, 2:12. 
Mr. Either did all of Eronson's preparatory 
work in his well-known campaign of 1914, in 
which races he was driven by his owner, 
George A. Graves. 

It is a matter worth\- of mention that, in 
1892, Mr. Either, in a published letter, made 
the assertion that the time would come when 
some youngsters would trot quite as fast 
when two and three years of age as they 
would ever go. With the great improve- 
ment in breeding, in training and in the 
tracks, he then saw the feasibilitv of devel- 



oping the speed in youngsters to such an 
extent that it would be their ultimate limit. 

With, a three-year-old pacing filly, Anna 
Eradford, going close to two minutes in 
19 14, and the trotting stallion, Peter Volo, 
in his three-year-old form, going his third 
heat in 2:03 1-2, it certainly looks as though 
the prophecy made by Mr. Either twenty- 
two years ago was very near a living fact. 

Air. Either joined the Metropolitan Driv- 
ing Club in 1914, and also belongs to the 
fraternal order of Masons. He resides at 
Readville. Alass. 



Racing Only for the Pleasure and 
Sport To Be Obtained 

H( )W often is heard the expression, 
"There is nothing in it. It does 
not pay to own a trotting horse." 
Why men who own fast trotters 
and pacers should invariably 
assume this attitude with regard to the sport 
has always been a puzzle. A man who owns 
a well-bred harness horse, either for the 
purpose of driving on the road, racing in 
matinees, or following the circuit, does so, or 
should do so, purely for the pleasure and 
sport that he derives therefrom. 

While it is possible that he may derive 
some pecuniary benefit, the presumption that 
he should always do so is ridiculous. There 
is no reason in the world why a man should 
derive a profit from his pleasure or sport 
with the horse any more than he should 
derive pecuniary benefit from following the 
pastime of golf or the sport of yachting. 

A prominent business man is authority 
that his golf club connections, from which 
he enjoyed not over fifteen days' sport for 
the entire season, cost him over $1,000, and 
that he considered it money well spent. If 
the average horse owner would look at the 
matter in the same light, he would agree that 
his sport is cheap at the price he pavs for it. 
Suppose he had to put up the price of a 
first-class-, horse for a >'acht, and then pay a 
crew for filing it, and a watchman to stay 
with it over night, with the only possible 
emolument ^n occasional silver cup ? 

This, be it understood, refers onlv to the 
gentleman owner : the driver, trainer and 
caretaker are in the sport as a business, and 
should derive a profit commensurate with 
their ability. True, there are also those who 
breed arid raise horses for the pleasure of it. 
rather than for any desire for profit, and the 
pleasure derived from the breeding of a 
possible world beater, or prize winner, is re- 
ward enough for the time and monev spen* 
in this pursuit. 




Equine Portrait Painters 
Who Have Won Fame 

(By Everett L. "Percy" Smith) 



OF our painters of horses in action, 
the late W. Scott Leighton, of 
lloston, was facile princeps. His 
landscape work toward the end 
was excellent, and he got atmos- 
phere into his skies. As a colorist he 
rivaled, it is my individual pleasure to con- 
sider, the great Meissonier. 

I saw him, back in the 70's, working on an 
action piece, its subject the snip-nosed 
Smuggler, 2:15 1-4, the champion trotting 
stallion from 1876 to '84, and, in a way, was 
a pupil of his at his Century Building 
studio, corner of Washington and Winter 
Streets, Boston. He gave instruction gratis, 
and was my kindest instructor of all. Like- 
wise, he always claimed my assistance as 
critic of action effect, though in but one in- 
stance that I recall was I of actual assistance. 
That was while he was working on his big 
canvas, "Here They Come," for which he 
received $3,000, and derived much revenue 
from photogravure reproductions. These 
readily sold at $10. 

One forenoon he was puzzled because 
none of several sketches for the central 
figure, Charlie Thorn on a break, satisfied. I 
recall taking a crayon and sheet of wrapping 
paper, and, by twisting the head one side, 
convinced him horses usually "break to one 
side," and that, directly behind the poll, a 
bend of their necks is necessary to give that 
half-plunging action just before they catch to 
their stride. He finished his figure that fore- 
noon, and, if I do say it, there's not a better 
horse "on a break" in oils. Later he pre- 
sented me a rapidly executed facsimile 
sketch, 8x10, of Thorn alone, and various 
other tributes, trifles to him, golden to me. 

Li his "Three V'eterans," to be seen in the 
corridor beyond the ladies' entrance at the 
Adams House, he shows therein his versa- 
tility, and the three dray horses there posed 
include a strawberry roan, the best color 
work in existence as concerns a horse. His 
"Labor Day," that yielded $1,000, was a 



masterpiece. One of the horse's quarters 
were chafed, and his treatment of the bare 
hide scarce could be bettered. A galled 
shoulder also was well executed. It is in a 
very low key. 

Leighton delighted in painting poultry 
and excelled. Ever did he have a "set" of 
fowl caged in his anteroom at the studio for 
constant study. The coloring of a brown 
leghorn cock ever is truthful, and the rich 
tint of the hackle and tail feathering abso- 
lutely beyond criticism, I believe. Alexander 
Pope's "Peacocks in Central Park," his 
sketches of dogs and still life were grand, 
yet he could not paint horses, cattle or fowl 
as did Scott Leighton. Mr. Pope's (assisted 
by Emil ("arisen) "Calling Out the Hounds," 
in the corridor of Hurlburt's Hotel, a gigantic 
canvas, was much admired and has been 
recently done over. All visitors to the Mur- 
ray Hill Hotel cafe recall Mr. Pope's "Polo 
Players," his still life work, and crated Bos- 
ton terrier, while, in the reading room, 
above, is a fine dog piece, showing English 
and Gordon setters, with shotgun, game Ijag 
and accessories — a well remembered piece. 

Returning to Leighton, many who "went 
through," in 1880, recall having seen him at 
work from life in their roomy boxes painting 
the set, reproduced at $50 by subscription, 
in color, comprising Capt. Lewis, 2:20 1-2, 
our first "plow-horse," that Horace Brown 
raced so well ; Clingstone, then in Charlie 
Predmore's hands and at 2:19 3-4; Black 
Cloud, 2:171-4, that had the stringhalt so 
prominently, and Edwin Thorn, 2:161-4, 
though the Thorn piece was furnished a land- 
scape background. He told me how much 
he received for the set, yet it is forgotten. 

It was a delightful privilege watching 
Leighton in his studio, painting his superb 
action pieces, "Hickok and St. Julien" (he 
also painted it with a Charter Oak Park 
backing) : "Bair and Maud S.," with a road 
and countryside landscape background. 
Also, about this time, he painted "Mill Boy 



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and Blondine," with John Shcpard driving; 
"Edward and Dick Svviveler," with Alurphy 
up, at Fleetwood Park : "Billy D., with 
running mate." for J. B. Barnaby ; and, later, 
a new set for reproduction on the limited 
subscription plan, at $25 the pair, and com- 
posed of "]\Ir. W'ork behind Edward and 
Swiveler,'' and "Mr. \'anderbilt behind 
Aldine and Maud S." \'er_\- likely these were 
painted for their respective owners, yet 1 
have seen a very few reproductions and pur- 
chased the set at the figure mentioned, 
truthfully reproduced by our very best 
chromo lithographers, Prang & Co. 

No painter worked harder than did Scott 
Leighton, and I have known him to have 
above 100 sketches and partially under-way 
pictures in the studio at one time. All of his 
"sales'" were successes, and today his work 
brings very high prices, though seldom 
offered. No one could paint young fowls as 
did he, and he ever could be found at Bates 
I'arm in the Spring, making studies of the 
little Lamberts, Abrahams, Cobdens or 
Wedgewoods. In cattle work he also was 
successful, but his best work and best loved 
was in the line of road scenes with his sub- 
jects at speed. 

One season he made the fatal error of 
copying some few of Adolph Schreyer's 
pieces with their Arabian horses and war- 
riors, but the press took him to task severely 
for it. Fortunately, the "break" did no per- 
manent injury, professionally or financially. 
No painter of horses ever was as favored 1)>' 
orders at remunerative figures as was he. 
once he got to be known. He painted nearh- 
all New England sires of note. .\ verv 
creditable piece by him that New Yorkers 
may see is the portrait of Eva, 2:23 1-2, 
lianging at Durland's, though it showed age 
and was somewhat in need of retouching 
when I saw it last, three or four years since. 

Well do I recall watching Leighton paint 
the humorous road scenes depicting the vil- 
lage parson in his "one-hoss shay" cleaning 
up the road, and also a sleighing piece that 
he did, which for truthfulness of detail were 
both excellent. Years ago he did these, long 
before he gave over his time seriously to his 
life work. He leased a stable in the heart of 
Boston, where he worked from life, and at- 
tended many autopsies at the abattoir to 
study anatomy thoroughly. All in all. 
Leighton was our very best j^ainter of the 
light harness horse, and, too, the most pro 
lific and versatile. 

Years, years ago we had here Theodore 
Marsden and an old deaf mute named 
Mitchell, both of whoni did very hcavv por- 
traits, painting over and over, rarely using 



the palette or oils. Of them, Alarsden was 
by far the better. He worked directly from 
life, rarely even sketching in his subject with 
a crayon. 

His "Godfrey's Patchen," showing the sire 
of Hopeful in his bo.\, was his best, and was 
warm in color treatment, somewhat lacking 
the true stable atmosphere, I ever considered, 
though it has had many admirers. Few ex- 
celled this old painter as to securing expres- 
sion of the eye, in painting stallions more 
especially, and he always gave his subjects 
plenty of bone and fought away from high 
finish or overdoing. His landscapes handi- 
capped him badly. Mitchell, always "hard 
up," accepted mere pittances for his work, 
$100 rarely being paid him, where Leighton 
received, usually, from $250 to $500 for much 
smaller canvases. The "Hopeful" that 
Mitchell painted was his best work, and the 
spots the little gray had on the hoofs are 
there true to life. 

The late C. B. Fish has left many excel- 
lent canvases. "Dan Mace and Hopeful," in 
which the little gray is shown at speed to a 
red Portland cutter, is easily Fish's best 
work. His reproduced work is often en- 
countered, and "Ambassador," almost "face- 
on" ; "Axtell" and "Sunol" in their stalls 
were well sold. In stall work he employed 
neither blanket decorations, straw effect nor 
aught else than grained wood sheathing, 
and usually painted their foretops braided in 
ribbons, just as they, of course, were, though 
a rather stiff and unpleasant method of treat- 
ment. Also, he ignored the purple lake 
"sheen." 

In his portrait work of their drivers, I 
think Fish can scarce be faulted. His pose 
of Dan Mace is good, while the Doble, in his 
"Xancy Hanks at Speed" piece, shows the 
veteran with that well remembered half 
smile, and one is impressed that it is l\Ir. 
Doble and not some mere lay figure. 

The Albany horse painter, Vanzandt, did 
some superb work. I saw him at Glen.s; 
Falls, twenty years ago, working on Delmar, 
2:t6 3-4, for the late W. E. Spier. In Frank 
Ferguson's office I once saw a reallv clever 
piece wherein John Murphy is riding some 
trotter whose identity I just at the moment 
do not recall. 

One of the grandest things in horse por- 
traiture is the "head of a trotter" over the 
mantel of the clubhouse at the Empire Citv 
track, and yet I cannot recall the artist, a 
woman, by the way, I think, who did it. 
My impression is that it is a portrait of Nut- 
shell, raced first by Charlie Sigourney and 
later by E. R. Bowne. The work is rarely 
executed and every detail as to harness, to 



is: 



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the minutest "runner"' or ■'billet" on the 
straps, true to the dot. 

Gean Smith's work lacks versatility, yet 
one thing he does do, and it is to have_ the 
driver actually driving. The "Cobwebs" at 
s]jeed that hangs in Hon. Nathan Straus" 
office is one of his best. You can tell a Gean 
Smith at one glance always. No more rapid 
worker lives in the field of horse portraiture, 
and he easily can sketch in a 24x30 canvas 
and rub in the sky and landscape all inside 
one workday. 

A very capable painter is Miss E. L. 
Seavey, formerly of Vermont or Quebec, 1 
forget which. She did "Bellini" rarely well, 
and, variously, has painted horses, though 1 
would consider her field lay in cattle work, 
after having seen a complete set that she 
painted to the order of Howard Willetts, of 
Gedney Farm, at White Plains. Her land- 
scape work is almost beyond criticism. 

At Mr. Hamlin's Delaware Avenue Stables, 
in Buffalo, I several times saw a mammoth 
canvas, "Mambrino King," on parade, led 
by a darky, or, better, "lugging" the colored 
groorn along as he strode the turf. W. W. 
Cross painted it, and it must be 10x15 feet in 
area. It was a spirited pose painted in Cross" 
broadest manner, the work largely having 
been done with his palette knife and the 
paint was actually "caked on," so heavily 
daubed was the landscape division of the 
piece. Many have seen it, and reproductions 
have adorned, in half-tone form, the Village 
Farm catalogues many times. All that Cross 
painted for the "grand old man of Buffalo"' 
pleased the owner, though, compared to a 
Leighton, they were crude indeed. 

Never to have known Cameron or A. J. 
Schultz, though Fve seen the latter sketch- 
ing Wedgewood, 2:19, years ago at the 
Rates Farm, I must pass them. Many of 
Currier & Ives' reproductions are signed 
"Cameron," and are of horses prior to the' 
2:10 era. A colored draughtsman, hardly 
artist, named Johnson, did stipple work years 
ago, though hardly finished work. Herbert 
.S. Kittredge, lamented by all who have seen 
his black and white at work in the latter 
70's and at the close of the Wallace's 
Monthlv's career, recall his splendid outline 
and anatomical understanding, yet I've never 
seen anything by him in color. Kittredge's 
(h'awing of Beausire I think his best. Also 
there was Cecil Palmer, whose study of 
Nutwood on stone is grand, even to that 
white splash on the inside of the hock, where 
is the "issue." He did stallions for stock farm 
owners in black and white, though I never 
saw a painting from his studio. 

At Stony Ford, in the old smoking room. 



one can see many examples painted by a 
man named "Scott," I think. All are very 
good, as concerns the horses, though lacking 
in sunshine effects or excellence of landscape 
work. Yet they were painted thirty or more 
\e rs ago, I suppose, when our leading 
painters considered it beneath them to do 
animals, and but "rummies" were supposed 
to paint a horse, even on an order. 

Today Boston has in Wilbur L. Duntley 
one who is doing excellent work. I have 




WILBUR L. DUNTLEY 
Secretary Metropolitan Club 1908-14 (inclusive) 

always thought he followed Marsden in his 
endeavors, so likely he was a pupil of the 
Maiden, Mass., artist. It is likely the best 
effort of Mr. Duntley was the painting "A 
Dash for a Fortune," the illustration of 
Allen Winter winning the $50,000 American 
Trotting Derby ; and the work in oil of the 
noted Uhlan, holder of the world's trotting 
record. The "Alta Axworthy," with Mr. 
Thomas up at speed, and his portrait of the 
lamented "Nightingale," have created favor- 
able criticisms. In A. J. Furbush's stable at 
Brighton is a superb crayon and wash por- 
trait of Chief Wilkie, entitled "King of the 
Speedway," which is true to life. A paint- 
ing, similarly posed of the same subject, also 
is clever. Mr. Duntley is kept very busv the 
year round at his Boston studio. 

Robert L. Dickey and George Ford 
Morris do excellent work in oils, while Ford 
Morris is indeed proficient in water color 
work and sepia. Mr. Dickey's portrait of 
"Oakland Baron" was much admired up at 
Poughkeepsie, in Mr. Ruppert's house at the 



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track. He held an interesliny exhiljition of 
his work in Chicago some years ago, and is 
now located in New York City. Mr. Dickey 
lias achieved fame, also, as a cartoonist, his 
very clever work in that direction on the Horse 
Review being one of the particularly brilliant 
features of the enterprising turf publication. 
He is a cartoonist, too, of a clean vein of hu- 
mor, his drawings never leaving a scar of re- 
gret in the memory of his subjects, so deli- 
cately are they handled. 

I.eigh S. Toman. S(jn (if the editor of the 
Trotter and Pacer, has made a favorable 
name for himself in reproductions of color 
exair.ples in issues of holiday numbers. He 
appears at his best in decorative work. It is 
[ileasing to note that he overcomes the tend- 
ency to employ a camera to sccvre his 
])oses, as never will that sort of work be 
considered by a critic as "art." 

It is a fact today very few can earn a 
living depending on painting mere ordered 
work, and the advertising line of work seems 
to offer but little of commercial encourage- 
ment. Any painter, to stoop to paint some 
piece intended merely to advertise, had bet- 
ter put asid^ his la^-otit, put on overalls and 
dig ditches if he must work or starve. 
Where one has leisure, loves the work, and 
need not worry as to the commercial side, 
painting horses, if one Init could have 
Bingaras to work from, is mightx' interesting 
as a pastime. 

It ever seems strange that so man\- who 
will pay high prices to purchase horses can 
hardly be induced to order a portrait at 
above, say, $50, whereas one almost always 
finds in the homes of the wealthy some paint- 
ing of a favorite dog, and the work of the 
Dutch cattle painters or ^lonKs' splendid 
sheep pieces command ready sale. The late 
J. Malcolm Forbes, brother-in-law of that 
true-blue sportsman, the late Colonel Henry 
S. Russell, once told me he cared absolutely 
nothing for an oil painting of a horse, yet 
would pay as much as painters asked could 
lie but secure photographs, absolutely true to 
life, of equal areas. He showed me some 
magnificent photos of Nancy Hanks, and 
remarked, "They are perfect, no painting of 
her possibly could please me as well." A 
very liberal man and wealthy, he yet commis- 
sioned some colorist to paint his beautiful 
vaclits, "Puritan" and "Mayflower," though 
to he sure one could hang a yacht piece in 
one's reception room where a portrait of a 
horse would be considered only eligible to 
hang in a den, billiard room, corridor, 
stable, office or loungino- room. 



CHAPTER II 

A Reminder of the Days When the 
Pool Box Told the Odds 

OH. for a return of those good old 
(la\s we like<l, many of us, to 
stand and watch "Ned" Morse, 
or hVank Herdic, or Charlie 
Stiles, or Ed Lowry, or Bride (of 
P)ride & Armstrong), or "Silver Bill" Riley 
or someone else, "sell 'em out" and, as the 
auctioneer knocked one down, to catch as he 
stooped over and addressed his clerk, the 
mysterious "P'orty-nine" (Wallace Peirce). 
"Hube" or "Starch" (the Brothers Hubin- 
ger), or "S. W." (John McNally) or the 
"Single M. number two," the "Andy" (A. ]. 
\\'elch) or the this or that. "Joe" might be 
"Diamond Joe" (John Costen of Cincinnati) 
or "Columbus Joe," for aught we knew. 

It was fun to watch a buyer like the late 
Pendleton, of Providence, always "Pen" 
everywhere. He could lift an eyelash, move 
his natty walking stick merely an inch or so, 
or nod his head, and yet bet good chunks for 
men like C. J. Hamlin, the late James 
Golden, the seldom - seen - in - a - poolroom 
"General" Turner, or others, and no one ever 
saw or knew anything of it unless a careful 
observer. Many times we were told to 
"watch Pen," and, if he played Thus and So, 
it was educated money working the charm. 

Back when Charlie Tanner was with the 
lamented James A. Goldsmith (he never 
drove those days, yet shipped the stable and 
was of great value to both the famous reins- 
man and Barney Perry at all moments), he 
played thousands of dollars for the plucky 
Orange County man, and, too, "Doc," as all 
call him, knew about what the opposition had 
done by way of trials, "up-seconds," and the 
current stable chat as to whether they "were 
meant" or not ; if ofif their feed or having sore 
thumbs or otherwise, and how near "over 
their last race they were, etc.," and was, as 
now, a very close observer. In those days I 
guess comparatively few imagined that he 
was a remarkably proficient speed maker in 
embryo. 

Our old Boston tracks and one or two built 
in boom times down at Portland, Me., have 
gone their way. Years ago we had a 
splendid half-mile track circuit hereabouts, 
with Lawrence, Worcester, Lowell, Fitch- 
burg, Taunton, Brockton, Attleboro, Woon- 
socket and various towns in Connecticut in- 
cluded, yet even this now has given way be- 
fore the anti-pool selling crusade, and seem- 
ingly but the "strictly fair" circuit has a 
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State Short Ship Circuit, which. I hear, did 
\rry well in its initial season. 

I well recall, during one of the big New 
England fairs, held always there at the old 
Worcester Fair Grounds, seeing Gus Dore 
(Lester's father) drive Galatea a heat in 2 128 
and that it was the track race record at the 
moment and was proudly announced by Tom 
King, who always acted as starter there. It 
w-as in 1881, and. over the same track, I 
afterward saw Prince A.. Corinne, Xed 
Winslow and others perform many seconds 
faster, some of the miles toward the very end 
of the pretty old track's history having been 
right at 2:10, writing from memory. C. M. 
Dyer's pretty trotter. Careless Boy, trotted 
an exhibition heat there one day, in 1879 or 
i88c, in 2 :28. as I recall, and many there that 
day doubtless believed they would never see 
his equal among Worcester owned trot- 
ters, yet, when they allowed "selling"' there, 
Worcester was one of the best towns on the 
New England circuit. The area occupied by 
the track and its complement of buildings is 
today built completely over and not to be 
recognized by sentimentalists, who like to 
think back to the New England Fair as our 
one to-be-perpetuated institution. 

At Westboro, ten miles east of Worcester, 
occurred one of the amusing incidents con- 
nected with our turf events that, after all, are 
really to be laughed over. A meeting at the 
half-mile track (now no more) wound up at 
dusk the last day and the last race looked to 
have a carried-over inclination. Heats were 
split up, horses tired and no one was willing 
to settle it as per summary. Accordingly, 
John Kervick thought up a plan to end the 
race and get the money divided. He pulled 
into the bushes on the back stretch, rejoined 
the tired horses with one fresh enough to do 
the trick and got the money, despite the un- 
usual protest and investigation. 

At old Beacon Park, before George Hicks 
caused to be razed the famous "w-illows" at 
the stretch turn for home, many were the 
Onawa-like breaks and attendant growls. 1 
can hear them yet — "I don't suppose you 
judges saw So and So run clean through 
them willows !" Then the accused driver 
made his plea. No patrol judge clause then. 
It w-as really a feature of especially the 
winter-overcoating meetings there. Ah ! 
Those late meetings, held as late as "October 
32d," I guess wxre pleasurable afifairs after 
all, and, whether they were framed up or 
otherwise, we saw hammer-and-tongs races 
just the same. 

Mr. Feek came over from Syracuse, 
usuallv Grady (he lived there then). Dougrey. 
.'Vita McDonald and Frazier came down from 



Albany, Tom McAloon, Woodbury and 
Libby came up from Maine, Fred Reynolds 
was at Charter Oak then, and he and "Gene" 
Hyde, together w-ith Shillinglaw, usually gave 
them some entries : Twitchell from the west- 
ern part of the State, Houghton and Wash- 
burn from W'orcester, Swan and others from 
up Athol way, and various others from as 
far away as Baltimore had horses in, and all 
wanted to get the money if they could escape 
a mark, and "Gamey" will tell you that is the 
really artistic feat and makes for interesting, 
amusing races and stand management, if at 
all rightly conducted. One heat may be 
2:34 1-4, and the next in 2:24 1-4, for some- 
times an owner of some stallion wanted a 
race-record — and he got it, too. 

The bologna sandw'iches tasted just as well, 
let me add, as though every rule in that book 
"went." The coffee, even without fancy 
trimmings and tongs to handle cut sugar, 
tasted satisfactory — possibly it had a few 
dried beans mixed therewith, and no one 
uttered a protest because of price or service. 
Eve seen men of considerable wealth elbow 
neighbors with "Mike-the-Tramp," eating as 
heartily at these 10-20-30 lunch counters at 
the tracks as though surrounded by brokers 
at the swell clubs where dues alone amount 
to hundreds annually and with a waiting list 
only utilized in the event of a death among 
the older members. 

Today the owner rides to the races in his 
$10,000 auto, the chauffeur receives more 
than a trainer's charges for handling a sea- 
son's sensation, everyone has his private car 
for the horses, the swipes wear uniforms, 
washes and other preparations are put up in 
convenient form to be merely diluted and 
applied under cotton, they are put away for 
the night and "the stable" is at the theatre 
enjoying a roof garden show, whereas, in the 
old days, the owner and trainer remained to 
see the race performer cooled out and put 
away, and frequently going without their own 
supper, merely catching a late bite in town 
before retiring. Nothing at all suggestive of 
the old gipsy-like, halfway camping out life 
from Cleveland to Boston does one see, and 
the old "hotels'' at the track entrances have 
gone their way. Never do we see a partv in 
a landau at, say, thirty dollars for the after- 
noon and evening, as well as paying for feed- 
ing the horses, wining and dining, as well as 
liberally tipping the driver, — this whether 
winners or losers on the day. 

No, it is, seemingly, forever past, this tem- 
porarily "high life" chapter. Monev appears 
to be tight and men like the late Major Dick- 
inson, Matthew Rilev, Col. Lawrence Kipp, 
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satile Fasig, and others, too numerous 
almost to mention, who could spend a hun- 
dred dollars entertaining their friends all in- 
side of two or three hours at the hotels after 
the day's races, and remained ever loyal to 
the trotters, through panics and all upsets of 
markets or legal calculations, who could well 
aiTord to lose the small sums they wagered 
out of pure sentiment, and who never 
stopped to figure whether their horses in 
training paid their way, and who, on winning 
a stake, always presented the net amount to 
the trainer and in addition "remembered the 
boys" to the tune of fifty apiece or such mat- 
ter, all has forever passed into the pleasant 
past of our trotting turf history. 



The 



CHAPTER III 
Old Story "The Best 
the Mare Ever Foaled" 



Colt 



FEW, very few, among our mer- 
chants today keep a mare or two 
at some near-the-city stock farm, 
and, regularly, when brain- 
fagged or the weather is too hot 
to be enjoyed in town, organize a parlor car 
party and spend a week-end at the stock 
farms, hopeful that their favorite road mare, 
now retired to the ranks of the matrons, mav 



yet throw a stake wmner. and rarely counting 
cost of keep, or other expense, so long as the 
colts come straight and resemble some 
especially famed ancestor. 

Did you ever see the fond owner who 
failed to remark, as the week-old youngster 
sticks out his boot-brushlike tail and strides 
ofif a rod or two, "That's a trotter, and he is 
by all odds the best the old mare has 
foaled !" It's the old story. Always are they 
best at week-old form and later, if perchance 
a curb appears to be "set" and not a case of 
sickle-hock-that-will-straighten-with-age, you 
know how sure they are to have "slipped on 
the ice and somehow thrown out that curb, 
etc." Of course, it is to be regretted. Al- 
ways did we draw our finger down the back 
tendon and try to convince ourselves that, at 
the curb-joint the leg was clean and that it 
was but a matter of prominent "side" devel- 
opment. Not even "rounding" were we ready 
to admit. No, no colt ever, even today, I 
presume, is foaled admittedly curby, and 
always some stall strain, some trifling acci- 
dent causes it all. 

Who ever saw a broken down juvenile that 
wasn't the fastest thing when a two-year-old 
ever foaled in the county ? Nothing ever had 
the excuses made for it to compare with the 
colt of high hopes, expensive service fee and 
extensive staking, and ever will it be thus. 




"THE BEST COLT THE MARE EVER FOALED" 

Quilberta (2), 2:29 3-4, by Bingara, dam Regal Lassie, 2:26 1-4, by Ralph Rex, 2:26 3-4. 

Holding the Filly is William Wright, Stallioneer at the Allen Farm. 

Owned by Everett L. Smith 



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This one trotted Readville in 2:12 at fuur, 
but went wrong during some cooling out 
heat, or else sprained a ligament while being 
led, or slipped on the platform while shipping 
and all that, and always, too, are they tried, 
blistered and turned out, yet one more sea- 
son, etc., and the Tertimins, Travelessos, 
Tregantles. Anna Maces, Azotes, and vari- 
ous others that have had small fortunes spent 
educating, car-traveling and "experiencing" 
them are far more numerous than the mere 
reader realizes. 

Yet, sometime, you too may have one to 
go trot or pace a quarter around 30 seconds 
handsomely, and so early in life it does seem 
a sure two minute proposition, vv'ith the 
William or liaden sweep of the big line 
stakes, then the subsequent sale to some 
wealthy enthusiast for sensational money. 
Anticiftatory moments are, however expen- 
sive, ofttimes sweet, and it is after all the one 
great gamble — vil! he keep sound, get the 
one day with just his track and that flag that 
hangs limp at the posthead on the grand- 
stand i 



National Trotting Association Was Or- 
ganized in 1870 at Providence, R. I. 

The National Trotting Association was or- 
ganized as a voluntary association in February. 
1870, under the name of the National Associ- 
ation for the Promotion of the Interests of the 
American Trotting Turf, which name was 
changed for the present one at the biennial 
congress held in 1878; and in 1884 the organ- 
ization became incorporated tmder the charter 
then procured. 

The inaugurating meeting in 1870 was 
composed of delegates representing the lead- 
ing trotting parks of the country assembled 
upon the invitation of the Xarragansett Park 
Association of Providence. That invitation 
was issued in the Fall of 1869, and, referring 
to the abuses which had become prevalent at 
trotting meetings, proposed the formation of 
a national trotting association and the estab- 
lishment of a code of rules for the govern- 
ment of all as the surest means of correctin'^" 
those abuses, and of elevating and protecting 
the standing and character of the .\merican 
trotting turf. That invitation received the 
indorsement and support of the press 
throughout the country, and resulted in an 
earnest and enthusiastic meeting, w-hich. dur- 
ing a three days' session, framed and adopted 
a code of laws, elected officers and accom- 
plished the initial organization. 

The first president of the association was 
.\masa Sprague, of Providence, who resigned 
the office at the congress of 1876, when he 



was succeeded by C. W. W'oolley, of Cin- 
cinnati ; then, upon the resignation of the 
latter, the congress of 1880 elected to the 
office James Grant, of Davenport, la., who 
held the office until February 8, 1888, when, 
upon his declining a re-election, P. P. John- 
ston, of Lexington, Ky., the present incum- 
bent, was elected. 

The first secretary was George H. Smith, 
of Providence, who, in August, 1872, was 
succeeded by D. F. Longstreet, also of 
Providence, who resigned in July, 1874, 
when Thomas J. X'ail, of Hartford, w-as 
chosen. Mr. ^'ail held the office until May, 
1887, and, upon his resignation, M. M. 
Morse, of Paw Paw, 111., was appointed. He 
resigned in December, 1895, and \V. H. 
(incher, of Cleveland, (.)., the present secre- 
tary, was elected. 

L'nder the first code, annual meetings of 
the members were held until 1874, when an 
amendment was adopted establishing bi- 
ennial meetings. At these meetings (or con- 
gresses), the by-laws and rules are revised 
and new ones enacted, and the president an 
vice-presidents and district members of the 
board of appeals are chosen — the secretary 
and treasurer being appointed by the board 
of review. 



Horses Enjoy Human Companionship 

The fact that, with few exceptions, all ani- 
mals enjoy human companionship, and, that 
the horse ranks first in his appreciation of 
sociability, is fully appreciated by all who un- 
derstand equine nature. The amount and 
(|uality of conversation used in giving com- 
mands, or in censuring the animal when a 
command has been misinterpreted, is not 
sufficient. Take advantage of every oppor- 
tunity that offers to give your charge a 
friendly word or pat ; it will encourage him 
to greater efforts and incidentally will place 
you on more friendly terms with yourself. 

The horse fully realizes when one speaks 
to him kindly ; and although some so-called 
human beings may not always appreciate the 
kindly tone, the horse always does. The 
horse that trusts his master will do anything 
he can for him, which is not the promise of a 
politician, either. The horse will do or die. 

One of the secrets of all skilled trainers 
and teachers is a low, well-modulated voice, 
which is much more effective than harsh 
words or a whip. This is most especially 
true of the horse whose sensitive, excitalile 
nature makes him so miserable and unstrung 
when angry words are yelled at him that he 
loses liis head entirely, and the lesson such 
W'ords w-ere intended to convey is not onlv 
lost, but a bad effect is produced. 



How Major Delmar Won the Massa- 
chusetts Stake 




iRv Charles M. Tewett) 



Secretary of Rcndznile truck tliroityh its best 
years of racing and counted the peer of all secre- 
taries in the country. Mr. Je'tnett is an e.vperl 
amateur driver, as. at the opening of the club- 
house at Readville he drove Charles IVhitte- 
niore's trotter, Timbrel, to ivagon in 2:11 3-4. the 
third heat of a zi'inning race, zvhich 7cas at the 
time the z<.'orld's amateur trotting record to 
T^'agon. In his official position Mr. Jezvett had 
"-uside" information of many turf events not 
,::ailable for the lay public. He entertainingly 
ii'ritcs of some prominent Readz-ille track races. 



I- .1. ileralJ 



T 



started, 
favorite. 



HE biggest betting race that oc- 
curred at Readville was in the 
race for the "Massachusetts" of 
1902. The purse that year was 
815,000, and eighteen horses 
with The Roman a pronounced 
This race was won by Major 
Delmar in straight heats, and it will be seen 
that the betting had to be fast and furious to 
reach such a magnitude. Frank Herdic told 
me that this was the greatest betting race 
that ever occurred at a trotting track, and to 
me the fact that only a few more than three 
hundred individuals participated in the great 
volume of speculation has always been a 
matter of surprise. I took the pains, the fol- 
lowing Winter, to tabulate the pool-sellers' 
book, and found that less than three per cent 
of those who paid admission at the gate that 
day purchased pools on the event. 

The race that year was a nomination event, 
horses to be eligible at closing time and 
named shortly before the race. The late 
George Van Dyke, of Boston, had taken a 
nom'nation for Kwanon, 2:12 1-2, then 
owned by him. The horse did not train well, 
and Mr. \'an Dyke was anxious for me to 
secure a starter for him. I had attended the 
meeting at Detroit and Cleveland and saw 
Alaior Delmar win a purse race at both those 
towns. 

The horse had not been staked, which 
makes it apparent that he had not. the previ- 
ous year, shown the class that the Readville 
race later proved he possessed, but I was 
strongly impressed by the horse in his race 



.t Detroit, and tried to sell to the late Alta P. 
McDonald (who had him) Mr. \'an Dyke's 
nomination in the Massachusetts, but with- 
out success. Again, at Cleveland, I felt sure 
that the horse was of Massachusetts calibre, 
but Alta said he was not "good enough." 
From Cleveland I returned to Readville for a 
day or two, leaving the following Sunday for 
IJultalo. at which meeting my entries closed 
on ]\Ionday. 

Sunday Mr. \'an Dyke came out to the 
track and asked me if I had secured a horse 
for his nomination. I told him I had not, 
but that there were three possibilities not 
alreadv engaged in the event : two of these 
were in the stable of Ed. Benyon, Walnut 
Hall (afterward the sire of the Harvester'^ 
and Ozalma, the third and the one that I 
liked best was a bay gelding called IMajor 
Delmar, in the stable of Alta McDonald, but 
that ^McDonald did not think him good 
enough for such a race. I then grew en- 
thusiastic in my description of the horse, and 
Mr. A'an Dyke said : 

"You see Alta in Buffalo tomorrow and 
tell him that I will name the horse on my 
nomination in the 'Massachusetts.' If he 
wins anything. I'll take the entrance money 
out and he can have the rest. " 

Mr. A'an Dyke was taking a dying chance 
of saving his S750. I told Mr. \'an Dyke 
that [McDonald was not engaged at Buffalo, 
but would be at Poughkeepsie that week. 
"Get him on the telephone there and have 
him start the horse." 

The following morning, at Buffalo, I 



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talked with Alta in Foughkeepsie, and he 
Lold me to go ahead and name the horse. 

The morning of the race, Alta came into 
the office at Readville, whip in hand — he was 
there warming up Delmar — and said: 

"Mr. Jewett, repeat the terms on which 
Delmar is named in this race. As the 
arrangement was made by telephone, I wish 
to be sure we understand it alike." 




MAJOR DELMAR, 1:59 3-4 

I repeated the proposition I had made 
over the wire, and he said, "That is right, and 
as I understand it," and was turning to go 
out when I said to him, "You know, Alta, 
that we are to give a consolation with a 
purse of $2,000 to horses starting and not 
winning money in the race today."' 

'T shan't want to start in it," he replied. 
"I'll get money out of this race." 

Yet, I know that the horse would not have 
started on less liberal terms, but would have 
been engaged in a purse race instead. Alta 
and his party won handsomely on the race, 
and a framed photograph of the check for 
i is winnings hung as a valued trophy in his 
I ffice at home. 



CHAPTER II 

Inside Facts About the Charley 
Herr-Cresceus Race at Readville 

LIKELV no event created so 
much criticism at the time, and 
is even mentioned to this day in 
horse circles, as the stallion race 
of 1900, for a purse of $20,000, 
which has gone down into history as the 
Charley Herr-Cresceus race. 

I was much surprised, the other day, to 
find that this event of fourteen years ago the 
27th of last September, recalled to one spec- 



tator only the impression of a "fixed" race. 
The bitter nature of the struggle for first 
money and the stallion championship, in fact, 
the whole magnitude of the event had left 
only hazy recollections, the only clearly 
defined impression remaining was that it was 
a "fixed" race. 

This man said to me that he had been at 
Readville a day or two of the Grand Circuit 
meeting in iyi2, not having attended 
before in many years, and it seemed to him 
that racing had lost the snap, dash and ex- 
citement that characterized it in the betting 
days. It was dull and uninteresting, he 
thought, and not to be compared with that of 
former years, although of former times one 
race had left a bad impression. 

"Most of the racing there," he said, 
"seemed to me to be on the level, but I re- 
member seeing one race that I have always 
thought was fixed all the way through." 

"What race was that?" I asked, "and when 
was it?" "I don't remember just the race, 
nor the year, but I remember that a horse 
called Charley Herr had won two heats and 
finished ahead in the third, and then the 
judges gave the heat to a horse called Cres- 
ceus. Why, I am as sure as I am talking 
that Charley Herr won that heat — even the 
band saw it and started playing, 'He Was 
Bred in Old Kentucky,' before the judges 
announced it." 

"So you thought the race fixed, and what 
do you mean by 'fixed' and by whom?" 1 
asked. 

"C>h, I think it was all framed up by the 
horsemen, the judges and the track people 
for the yellow horse to win." 

I really had to laugh. I won't say that 
races were never "fixed" at Readville, but 
that the management and the judges they 
employed had ever been impeached by public 
opinion in such a matter was news to me. 

I asked him if he knew who the judges of 
that race were and who the directors of the 
association were at that time, and he ad- 
mitted that he did not. So I told him that 
the judges of the race were the late Col. 
Henry S. Russell, Mr. William Russell Allen 
and ]\Ir. Horatio N. Bain ; listed the directors 
by starting with Col. John E. Thayer as 
president, J- Malcolm Forbes as vice-presi- 
dent, and so on down through the list. 

This imposing list of names and the further 
information that no occupant of the judges' 
or the timers' stands (the one on the outside 
and the other on the inside of the track) had 
seen the finish other than as announced 
served to exonerate the judges and manage- 
ment from implication in his mind. 

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opinion tliat somehow a mistake was made 
and that Charley Herr won that heat and was 
entitled to the race. "Uncle" Davy Cahill, 
of course, will go to his grave believing that 
liis horse won it. Only the other day, in 
speaking of the event, J. L. Tarleton, of Lex- 
ington, Ky., said to me that John Kelley (the 
driver of Charley Herr) died believing he 
won that heat. 

I think there is some mistake about this, as 
Mr. Kelley told me — not at the time of the 
race, but a year or two afterwards — that he 
did not win it. But, at that, in heats as 
close and as fiercely contested as was that 
one, the opinion of a driver of a contesting 
horse is of little value. Certainly, Mr. Kelley 
was too busy, too much occupied at the 
moment to be in a position to say whether the 
horse he drove, or Ketcham"s mount, won 
that heat. 

To return to the stallion race, I remember 
as if it were yesterday of going into a meet- 
ing of the directors to suggest a stallion race. 
The signs and conditions for a feature event 
seemed most auspicious. Neither before, nor 
since, have there been so many stallions of 
the first flight, or horses seemingly so evenly 
matched, in training. 

Moreover, Mr. Forbes, vice-president, and 
a potent factor in the councils of the associa- 
tion, had, in Bingen, Peter the Great and 
Arion, three strings to his bow for such an 
event, and as Mr. Thayer always welcomed a 
chance to make reputation for the associa- 
tion (of which he was the head), provided it 
appeared to have a fair chance of success, I 
felt pretty certain that the stallion race would 
l)e added to the program of the Breeders' 
meeting that year. 

I suggested to the directors the giving of 
such an event, but had not stated the size of 
the purse that seemed best, when Mr. Forbes 
suddenly turned to me and said: "Mr. Tewett, 
how many stallions do you think would be 
entered in such a race for a purse of 

$20,OCO?" 

The size of the purse suggested brought 
nil at (ince to attention, and I replied, "seven," 
naming six and taking it as a matter of 
course that Mr. Forbes would name one or 
luore of his three. 

"."Vud how many people would pay to see 
such a race?" and my replv was from eight 
thousand upward, and added that I thought 
such an event would increase the betting 
revenues of the meeting by $1,000. 

1 had suggested that the entrance fee 
should be, as usual at that time, five per cent 
to enter and five per cent additional from 
winners, which, with a minimum of four en- 



tries, would make the net cost of the race 
$16,000. 

As the receipts from entrance fee and 
gate receipts seemed likely to cover this 
amount, when Mr. Forbes said, "I move, Mr. 
President, we give this race for a purse of 
$2o,oco," all the directors were enthu- 
siastic and the race was on. 

I he success of this, the greatest of all stal- 
lion races, is a matter of history. Twelve 
stallions were named and more than 8,000 
people paid to see it. Seven horses started, 
two of which had not been named originally, 
a provision of the conditions allowing such 
substitution on payment of a certain per cent 
of the purse. Arion started for Mr. Forbes, 
in place of Peter the Great, who did not 
train well that season, having trouble with 
his feet, and Jupe was substituted for Poin- 
dexter by Mr. Lawson. A "near-starter" 
was Dare Devil, afterward owned by Mr. 
I^awson. Mr. Hamlin finally figured his 
horse would lose more in reputation than any 
cash equivalent that would accrue to him 
from the race would offset, and the hand- 
som.e one stayed in the stable. 

I had hoped to get this horse to start in 
place of Monterey, who had been nominated 
by Col. Thaver under unusual conditions. 
This horse, owned in California, had taken a 
record of 2:091-4 the previous season and 
shown great flights of speed, but his un- 
steadiness indicated a lack of class. His 
owner thoroughly believed in him, however, 
and wrote me most eloquently as to his 
merits ; but, alas, his finances would not ad- 
mit of engaging his horse. "Barring acci- 
dents," his engagement was equivalent to 
winning, so his owner stated, and I have 
never doubted that he believed all he claimed 
for his horse. 

I showed this letter to Col. Thayer one 
dav, remarking that it was the hardest con- 
ditional entrv to decline of my experience. 
He read the letter, and its eloquence had its 
effect on him, as Mr. Thayer had regretted 
much that he had been unable to help the 
fortunes of the race by an entry from his own 
stable. He instructed me to write the owner 
that he w^ould name the horse in the race, 
])ay the entrance and, in case the horse won 
any part of the purse, the entrance money 
was to be refunded, the balance he could 
have for himself. 

With everything to win and nothing to 
lose, that inevitable "accident" turned up 
and the owner was unable to avail himself 
of the proffered opportunity, and I am of 
the impression that the horse never came 
East that season. 

When the entries to the race closed, it 



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promised the glorious contest that fmally 
resulted, but the morning opened upon a 
race which foreshadowed a practical walk- 
over for the mighty Cresceus, with the real 
contest centering about the struggle for 
second money ; but gallant Charley Herr 
literally "came out of the West," arriving 
only the day before from Fort Wayne, Ind., 
where the previous week he had won a six- 
heat race, and put up a contest with Cres- 
ceus, which made it the greatest of all stal- 
lion races. So little were his chances con- 
sidered that he brought but $30 in a pool of 
$2,360, while Cresceus was barred in the 
pooling after the selling of a few tickets, in 
which he sold at odds of about five to one 
over the whole field. After the first heat 
the odds were Cresceus $60, field $100, and 
before the third heat the field sold for $200 
and Cresceus $75. 

The time of the five heats was 2:07 1-4. 
2:07 1-4, 2:07 1-4. 2:07 1-2, 2:08 3-4. I 
remember of Tim ^lurnane saying to me 
after the third heat, as I for a minute watched 
the cooling out of Cresceus, "Oh, Mr. Jewett, 
won't they ever stop putting in these heats 
in 2:07 1-4?" ]\Ir. I-vetcham at the time 
stood leaning against the shed ; he was very 
pale and looked extremely tired and anxious. 
The summary of the race ; 

Readville, Mass., Sept. 27, 1900. — Free-for-all trot. 
Stallions ; purse. $20,000. 

Cresceus, ch. h., by Robert McGregor 

(G. H. Ketcham) 3 2 i i i 

Charley Herr, b. h., by Alfred G. 

(J.Kelly) I I 2 2 3 

Grattan Boy (Miller). 4-3-3-3-2; Arion (Titer), 
2-6-5-5-5; Lord Vincent (Splan), 5-4-4-4-4; Ben- 
ton M. (Marble), 6-5-dis.; Jupe (Gatcomb), dis. 

Time — 2 :07 1-4, 2 :o7 1-4, 2 :o7 1-4, 2 107 1-2, 2 :o8 3-4. 

Average time, 2 :07 3-5 ; winner's average, 2 :07 5-6. 



CHATTER 111 
Judges Help Scott Hudson Re- 
cover Trotter Stolen from 
His Stable 

THl'^Rl'; are many interesting inci- 
dents occurring during the race 
meetings that the general patrons 
of the sport never hear about, 
and very many are quite tragic 
right at the time they happen, particularly 
to the persons identified in the troul)les. 
Such was the case at Readville track during 
one of the Grand Circuit meets, but I 
finally by shrewd headwork straightened 
the whole affair out to the satisfaction of the 
different parties concerned. Here is the 
story : 

in the night a horse in the stable of Scott 



Hudson was, with the aid of our watchman, 
secretly transferred to that of Monroe Salis- 
bury. Scott had been training the horse all 
the season and had him during the previous 
Winter. He found he was good, and entered 
him through the line, but found that there 
was a matter of more than $1,000 in suspen- 
sions to settle before he could be started. 

The horse was good and the stispensions 
were paid by Hudson, who won well with 
him, but at the time of the Readville meet- 
ing the sum total of his winnings did not 
offset the charges against the horse. The 
owner wanted to take him away from Hud- 
son, but the latter would not consent until 
charges were met, and the result was as 
stated above. 

The ruddy complexioned Hudson waxed 
angry about the matter and expressed him- 
self strongly to me as to the part our watch- 
man had played in the affair, and I felt obli- 
gated to help him recover his horse. 

A lawyer was called in, and we found that 
in order to replevin the horse (Mr. Hudson 
being a non-resident) it would be necessary 
to give a bond for $15,000, twice tlie value 
placed on the horse. This Mr. Hudson was 
willing to do, but it then occurred to me 
that we could get possession of the horse 
with the aid of the trotting rules. The horse 
was entered to start on the following dav. 
and in Hudson's name, I suggested that 
Scott declare the horse in, pay the entrance 
and name himself to drive. 

When the race was called the horse ap- 
peared with Ben Walker up. The judges, 
who had been put wise, told Mr. Walker that 
Hudson was named to drive the horse, and 
they v.-ould not consent to a change of 
drivers, and directed \^'alker to turn the 
horse over to Hudson, who was standing on 
the track and awaiting this action. 

On getting possession of the horse, Scott 
drove him immediately to his stable, re- 
moved the harness and boots and sent them 
with the sulkv to the Salisbury stable. Then, 
equipped witli sulky, boots and harness of 
his own, reappeared on the track, won the 
race, and another, with the same horse, later 
in the week, when the differences between 
owner and driver were settled and the horsp 
turned over to the Salisbury stable the fol- 
lowing week at Providence. 



I never knew a mean man to own a good 
horse. — Eben Holden. 



Horses win the race not so much by their 
vigor as by the impulse of the driver. 

— Al Hamnd. 



How the Fastest Piece of Racing Dirt 
in This Country Was Secured 



(By John W. IJniiehan ) 



JUST before the Dorchester Driving 
Club was chartered, or on Alay I4> 
1900. to be exact, the first gun was fired 
by the club members for a permanent 
speedway for the horsemen of Dorches- 
ter and vicinity. S. Howard Mildran, a member 
of the Common Council from Ward 24, intro- 
duced an order for a speedway on the Talbot 
Avenue side of Franklin Field. A hearing" 
was given by the Board of Park Commission- 
ers, after a petition signed by over 2,000 of 
Bo.ston"s most prominent citizens had been 
presented to them, and they decided that if 
the Dorchester Driving Club members could 
secure an appropriation of $25,000 from the 
City Government to pay for the work of con- 
struction, they would grant the request of the 
petition. It was noticed particularly by the 
members of the committee present that the 
Commissioners smiled when they announced 
this decision. 

It was then up to the members of the club 
to get. the special appropriation of $25,000 
through the City Government and the Mayor's 
signature attached. Then began some of the 
finest political work ever pulled oflf in Boston. 
My readers must understand that there were 
seventy-two members in the Common Council 
and thirteen members in the Board of Alder- 
men. A majority of the finance committee of 
both branches of the government had to be in 
favor of the appropriation before it could be 
reported out of the committee. Then a ma 
jority of both boards, sitting separately, had 
to be secured to pass the appropriation. 

It would be impossible to mention by names 
all the members of the City Government that 
showed their friendship for the driving club 
while this order was on its way ; but to How- 
ard Mildran and Herbert Burr, members in 
the Council from Ward 24, and James M. 
Curley, now Mayor, and John E. Baldwm, 
in the Board of Aldermen, the club and Dor- 
chester citizens owe their speedway. To Ed- 
ward G. Richardson, at that time the press 
representative of the club, we also owe much. 
Assisted by these men, the order passed botli 
branches of the City Government and was 
signed by Mayor Thomas Hart, late in 1900. 

Then a committee of the Dorchester Club 
members appeared before the Board of Park 



Commissioners, who, then and there, refused 
point blank to grant the request of the club, 
and, when they were reminded that they had 
promised to grant this request if the club 
could secure the appropriation of $25,000, 
they frankly admitted that, at the time they 
made that promise, they had not the least idea 
that the club members could get any such ap- 
propriation through the City Government and 
that they thought they were perfectly safe in 
putting the club members ofl: with that prom- 
ise. 

It was an angry committee which left the 
Park Commissioners' oftice, and an angry club 
membership that met the next Monday night 
in Central Hall, the club's meeting place at 
that time. They had the $25,000 appropria- 
tion, but no place to spend it. 

The fight was then on to prevent this money 
from being transferred for other purposes 
until the club members could get the Park 
Rnard to see things in a different light. In 
this matter E. G. Richardson, the City Hall 
reporter for the Transcript, and press repre- 
sentative of the club. Aldermen Curley and 
Baldwin were always on guard, and every 
time that the Park Board made a move to 
transfer this money for other purposes than 
originally intended, Curley or Baldwin blocked 
their game. 

Things drifted along in a discouraging man- 
ner until Mayor Collins came up for re-elec- 
tion in 1902. A committee from the , club 
waited upon him to find out what his disposi- 
tion was in the matter of compelling the Park 
Commissioners to grant the club's request. 
This committee consisted of F. J. Brand, 
R. K. Clarke. S. Walter Wales, A. S. Gushee, 
J. W. Linnehan, W. E. Newbert, George H. 
(ireenwood, H. P. Gallup, J. M. E. Morrill, 
R. S. Fitch, Albert Fellows" and E. G. Rich- 
ardson. 

When the proposition which the committee 
had to suggest was put up to Mayor Collins, 
he turned completely around in his chair and 
said, "What, a race track on Franklin Field? 
Why, the old settlers of Dorchester would 
turn over in their graves at such a thing; no. 
no, any place but Franklin Field." 

It was then that the Dorchester Club mem- 
bers rounded up the .South Boston and Ja- 



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maica Plain clubs, amalgamated as it were, 
with the idea of getting a speedway some- 
where in the vicinity of Dorchester. The 
South Boston boys suggested the Strandway, 
or the Old Colony track bed, near the calf 
pasture, but things drifted along with very 
little satisfaction and no results. 

Meetings were held in several places, one 
particularly, in the home of J. M. E. Morrill, 
at which nearly seventy-five prominent horse- 
men from South Boston, Jamaica Plain. Mat- 
tapan and Dorchester attended. Finally the 
officials and board of directors were notified 
to attend a meeting one Sunday morning in 
their clubrooms in Codman Square. J. M. E. 
Morrill, although not a member of the board, 
attended by invitation of President Brand. 
After considerable discussion as to the proper 
way to go about it, it was voted that a com- 
mittee of three be appointed to carry out the 
matter of compelling the Park Commissioners 
to grant a location for a speedway to a finish, 
and $500 was appropriated for the use of the 
committee in furthering their object and for 
such necessary expenses as might occur. This 
committee consisted of P. J. Fitzgerald, 
George W. D'Arcy and J. W. Linnehan. The 
committee met the next day and organized 
with Fitzgerald as chairman and Linnehan as 
secretary. It was agreed that the committee 
should work individually and separately, and 
report results weekly. 

When a member of this committee inter- 
viewed Alderman Curley and told him that 
the directors of the club had appropriated 
$500 to be expended in the way of advertise- 
ment and the collecting of signatures to peti- 
tions to be presented to the City Government, 
Mayor and Park Board, the Alderman advised 
against it. "Don't let your committee spend 
one cent ; you don't need to. You have a ma- 
jority of the Common Council and the Board 
of Aldermen with you now and they will stay 
with you until the finish. Bring all the influ- 
ence you can on the Mayor to have him com- 
pel tlie Park Commissioners to grant you a 
location for your speedway, but don't spend 
a cent of the club's money in this matter." 

When this matter was mentioned to Alder- 
man Baldwin he practically gave the same ad- 
vice as Alderman Curley, and it might be well 
to mention right here that not one cent of this 
$500 was ever expended by this committee 
throughout their whole transaction. 

When this conversation was reported to 
P. J. Fitzgerald at a meeting of the commit- 
tee, he said, "That is just what I expected 
from Jim Curley. It is now up to us to go 
after Mayor Collins, and we had better see 
him individuallv, not collectivelv." 



After three visits to the Alayor's office, J 
was allowed to see him. I opened up by say- 
ing, "Mr. Mayor, as a member of the Dor- 
chester Driving Club committee on a speed- 
way, I have come to see you about granting 
a location in Dorchester for a speedway where 
the Dorchester horsemen can race their 
horses." 

"How many of you are on that committee?" 
asked he. "I had P. J. Fitzgerald in here yes- 
terday. He is set for a speedway on Franklin 
Field. You men must be crazy to ask for .1 
race track on that field. Why, you will kill 
more people there in a year than were killed 
at the battle of Bunker Hill." 

"Mr. Mayor," I inquired, "did you ever 
drive a horse in a race?" 

"No," he replied, "I never drove a horse in 
my life, and I would not know what to do 
with him if he should go faster than a walk." 

"Well," I said, "it would be of no use for 
me to argue the question with you." 

"No," he answered, "Fitzgerald gave me all 
the argument I wanted yesterday, but I prom- 
ised him to look into the matter and I am 
coming out some Saturday to see you boy3 
race your horses at Mattapan." 

I thought to myself, here is where I can get 
a chance to spend some of that $500, so I 
said, "Mr. Alayor, if you will come out next 
Saturday, I will send a carriage for you at 
whatever hour you may designate." 

"No, you won't," he quickly responded ; 
"when I go I will go with my own driver and 
horses that I know will not run away with 
me." 

That Mayor Collins did visit us at ]Matta- 
pan and see us race, and then went to Frank- 
lin Field and looked over the ground where 
the present speedway is, and became interested 
enough to take the matter up with the Park 
Commission, and had a quarter of a mile 
speedway laid out, is a fact, and was due en- 
tirely to P. J. Fitzgerald, who was a personal 
friend. 

That the Dorchester Driving Club had 
starting judges' stands and a grandstand builr 
is due to the late Mayor Hibbard, who was 
for years, while postmaster, a member of the 
club. 

To tell the story of how the speedway was 
extended from a quarter to a half-mile 
track during the Fitzgerald administratif)n 
would be only a repetition of the first part of 
this story. The only difference was that, in- 
stead of having to deal with a man, as Mayor, 
who had admitted that he knew nothing about 
a horse, in fact, was afraid of them, the com- 
mittee had to deal with a man who, although 
lie had never owned a fast horse, had driver 



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them on the speedway on several occasions, 
and who had ridden them at the heads of pa- 
rades Hke a regular Napoleon. 

When a committee of the club went to the 
Mayor and told him that they wanted the 
speedway extended to a half-mile, he readily 
agreed that they should have it ; and when he 
visited the speedway one race day with his 
Board of Park Commissioners and explained 
to them what was wanted, they objected be- 
cause of the expense and the amount of land 
it would take. 

He quietly said, "Mr. Chairman, you under- 
stand what these boys want. See that they 
get it." An-d President Johnson and his com- 
mittee gave the Park Board no rest until the 
work was finished. 

That the club got the extra thousands of 
dollars to complete this work through the 
City Government was due again to the assist- 
ance! rendered by Mayor Curley,then Alder- 
man, Alderman F. J. Brand, a past president 
of the club. Councillor T. J. Buckley, and Dan 
McDonald, now chairman of the City Council, 
and Edward G. Richardson. To these men 
the horsemen of Dorchester, South Boston, 
Jamaica Plain, Roxbury and Hyde Park, as 
well as those that enjoy the races from the 
side lines each week, owe a lasting debt of 
gratitude. 



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CHAPTER H 

An Amateur Driver in His First 

Professional Race — Trouble 

A-plenty 

l.\T were }'uur feelings and 
how did it seem to you when 
driving in your first profes- 
sional horse race?" is a ques- 
tion that is often asked of me 
by friends. Tlie same question has probably 
been put to every amateur driver. "Can you 
remember how you felt?" is another question 
asked. 

"Can I remember my first race in a sulky?" 
Well, I will never forget it, not if I live to be 
a hundred years old. My first professional 
race was at Rockland, Maine, on August 5, 
1902. The class was a 2:30 trot or pace; 
purse $250, and the number of horses starting, 
fourteen, were driven by some of the best- 
known drivers in Maine at that time. "Hod" 
Nelson, Ira Woodbury, Jim Kirby, Ed Morri- 
son, Ira Pottle and Charles Webb were among 
these drivers. 

I had purchased, the September previous 
from a party in Ohio, the five-year-old geld- 
ing, Budweiser, by Bud Crook, that had never 
seen a race track up to the time that I brought 
him East. In the opinion of my friends I had 




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been "stung," got a gold brick, etc.. and for 
a while it did seem as if my friends had the 
right dope. 

However, I won the first race that I ever 
drove him in for money, which, as before 
stated, was in Rockland, Maine. He also won 
for me at Readville (Dorchester Driving 
Club's Field Day), at Marshfield and at South 
Weymouth, and all in one year. These vic- 
tories gave me more real satisfaction than if 

1 had won the Chamber of Commerce, for 
Budvveiser beat to a frazzle horses owned by 
the very friends that were sure I had been 
gold-bricked when I bought him ; but I started 
to tell of my first race for money. 

Lon and Walter Newbert were partners 
with me in the dyestuff business at that time. 
They were Maine boys and used to spend their 
vacation in Rockland, where their parents re- 
sided. It is necessary to state in this story 
that Mr. Xewbert, their father, was the chair- 
man of the board of assessors of the city of 
Rockland. 

One day Walter received entry blanks for 
two-days' horse racing to be held in Rockland 
in connection with Old Home Week. One of 
the conditions of entry was that all horses 
must be owned by citizens of the state of 
Maine. 

Walter had Alice B., a trotter with a mark 
of 2 -.22 1-2, and he was going to enter her in 
the 2 :2o class. Lon suggested that I sell him 
Budvveiser, and he would enter him in the 

2 :30 class, pay all expenses, and that he could 
be shipped down with Alice B. 

I said, "Go ahead and take him." So Lon 
made out a check for $300, in payment for 
Budvveiser, and I gave him a bill of sale of 
the horse and deposited his check in my pri- 
vate drawer in the safe. Budvveiser was then 
duly entered in Lon's name and shipped on 
the Bangor boat to Rockland. 

Two days before the race took place Walter 
and I went to Rockland. Lon was to follow 
the next day. to be there to drive the horse. 
Just before Lon was leaving Boston some- 
thing came up in the matter of business that 
com]3elled him to give up the trip, so he tele- 
graphed us to Rockland that he could not go ; 
but for us to get someone to drive Budvveiser. 
Well, I decided to do the driving myself. 

When the race was called it was found that 
Budvveiser had drawn tenth position in the 
field of fourteen horses that turned for the 
word. As only four horses could score abreast 
I was in second place in the third tier, with 
horses in front of me, horses behind me and 
horses alf around me. We scored seven times 
before getting the word. 

"The charge of the Light Brigade" was not 
a patch on each one of these several scores, 



with "Hod" Nelson, who had the pole with the 
gelding, Geiger, yelling like an Indian. 

Well, at last we were off. I had an idea 
at that time that the proper place for me was 
out in front, so I set sail in true speedway 
style to win the race in the first quarter of a 
mile. I passed all and began to creep up on 
Nelson, who was leading. Just as my horse 
got to his sulky wheel he looked around, and 
when he saw who it was he gave one of his 
characteristic yells and began carrying me over 
on the grass at the outside of the track, until 
finally I could go no further, so I then pulled 
toward him and our sulky wheels began to 
grind. 

I was not frightened, but I was as mad as 
any frothing dog ever seen, and we both be- 
gan to hand out conversation that would not 
look good repeated here. However, we finally 
got clear driving again, and I finished fourth. 

Just imagine my surprise to then hear the 
announcer say in giving the positions of the 
horses : "Budweiser tenth." 

Newbert's Rockland friends, on the quarter- 
stretch and in the grandstand, urged me to 
go to the judges" stand and claim my rightful 
position. This I did, and, for the first time in 
my life, stood before the monarchs of all they 
surve)-. 

I didn't know one man in that stand. Nei- 
ther did I know, at that time, that judges at a 
horse race are supreme in all things. The 
starting judge was the well kniivvn Maine turf 
writer. Milton Hatch. 

I made my protest, saying: "Gentlemen, 
you have placed me tenth, but there is no ques- 
tion but what I finished fourth. I can bring 
a hundred men up here who will sustain me 
in the statement that I finished fourth.'" 

One of the judges replied: ''My dear su", 
we are judging this horse race, and we placed 
you tenth, and that is the position that you 
will start the next heat in." 

Now what do you think about that? "Why," 
I declared, "you are a gang of crooks."' Wow, 
wow ! 

Hatch here took a part in the conversation 
bv saying: "Young man, do you realize where 
vou are ? Do you know that these gentlemen 
can put you, and your horse, out of business 
for those words ?" 

In sheer ignorance and being thoroughly 
angry, I retorted: "Why don't they do it, then? 
but i still say that if they don't give me the 
position that I earned, which is fourth, they 
are a gang of cheats, and you are no better." 

All this time the crowd on the track and in 
the grandstand were shouting to me, "Stick 
to it." 

At last Hatch took me bv the arm and said 



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in a conciliating manner : "Tush, lush, I know 
you must mean all right. Now please me by 
going down and getting your horse ready for 
the next lieat." 

Being very stuffy over having been wronged, 
the next heat I scored down in fourth horse 
place, and Hatch gave the word to a good 
start while I was in that position. Again 
my speedway education came to me and I 
mentally told "Bud that it was in front for 
us or nothing," and in front we went. This 
time there was no question where I finished. 
Good judges, and perfect strangers to me, 
said that I had distanced over half the horses 
in the race, but they were all declared in and 
started when w^e scored for the third heat. 

At the finish of this heat, too, a number of 
the horses w-ere behind the flag, but only two 
were declared out. The fourth heat was the 
same. "Nothing to it" — and I had won the 
first race that I had ever driven in for money. 

A Mr. Wiggins then entered the judges' 
stand and protested Budweiser as a rmger, 
claiming that he had a mark of 2:10, and -ny 
winnings were held up. They also made a 
claim that the gelding, while entered by Lon 
Newbert, was not owned by him, and that Mr. 
Newbert was not a citizen of Maine. This, 
of course, placed us in bad all around. 

I knew that I could prove a clean bill of 
health for Budweiser when it came to a show- 
down, so when we got back to the hotel we 
called Lon up on the long-distance 'phone and 
told him our experience, explaining to him 
that it was up to him to prove that he owned 
the horse, and that he was a citizen of the 
state of Maine. 

By direction of Lon, Walter got his father 
to make out a tax bill for the years 190 1-2 
against Lon Newbert, Lon mailing a check 
payable to the treasurer of the city of Rock- 
land, for these two poll tax bills. 

I instructed my bookkeeper to take the 
check, which Lon had made out in payment of 
the horse, and deposit the same to my account 
in the bank. 

Li due time we sent the cancelled check in 
payment of the horse and the two years' tax 
bills of Lon Newbert to W. H. Gocher, of 
Hartford. He ordered the association to pay 
Mr. Newbert his money, $125, before they 
opened the gates for another race at the Rock- 
land track. 

Hatch afterwards explained to me that 
there was one man in the stand, who acted as 
judge that day, that could not show a clean 
bill of health to Mr. Gocher, if it was put up 
to him, which was the reason that the judges 
did not put Budweiser and myself out of busi- 
ness, and that I had acted so bold and fearless 
that they immediately thought that I had the 



goods on them, in having inside information 
regarding this particular man. 

But I didn't; it was pure ignorance on my 
part, as I had no idea of their power in the 
premises. I know better now. 



CHAPTER HI 



A Dead Game Sport Ruins a Bril- 
liant Racing Prospect 

HOW a good horse can sometimes 
be spoiled on the speedway and 
that It doesn't always pay to be 
too game a sport was never bet- 
ter shown than in the race be- 
tween Charlena, 2:22 1-4, and Rubsley G., 
2:16 1-2, on the Blue Hill Avenue Speedway 
in the Fall of 1902. 

The pacer, Rubsley G., was one of those old- 
fashioned race horses that would race all day 
and then come out ready for more. I had 
seen him race many times and admired him 
very much. He was owned by Jesse Moulton, 
and his home was in Gallup's stable. 

Charlena was owned by C. C. Blaney. She 
was an extremely fast mare, very high-spir- 
ited, but of delicate constitution. She had 
shown many miles in her work in 2:15, or bet- 
ter, and looked like a beautiful racing pros- 
pect. 

One night at the club, during recess, the 
talk started on the most consistent race horse 
in the club. I could not see any but Rubsley 
G., and said so. For an everyday, rain or shine 
horse, there was nothing to it but Rubsley G. 
Anyone that is acquainted with Mr. Blaney 
knows that he would not possibly agree with 
that, especially as he was sure that he had the 
best horse in his own stable. They also know 
that in an argument of that nature, with him, 
it is put up or shut up, and that is what came 
to pass before the argument was finished. 

The proposition, finally, was that the two 
horses race quarter-mile heats, best three in 
five, on three consecutive Saturdays, rain or 
shine, snow or ice, for $150; $50 for each 
race. 

The first race day was bitter cold. The 
opening heat was won by Charlena, the second 
by Rubsley G., the third by Charlena, and the 
fourth and fifth by Rubsley G. The cold wind 
had chilled the mare so that by the time the 
fifth heat was started she was fairly frozen up. 

The second race day was rainy and the 
ground was mud to the horses' fetlocks, but 
the going suited Rubsley G., and he won in 
four heats. 

The third race day the speedway was in a 
terrible condition, very rough and frozen and 
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racing horses. I suggested to Blaney that we 
call the race off and each draw down $25. 

"What, quit? Why," Blaney said, "not on 
your life." We would have that race and on 
that day, if we never had another. Others 
tried to change his decision, but it was no use. 

In the first heat, and while in the lead 
Charlena broke and cut her quarter and Rubs- 
ley G. won the heat jogging. The next heat 
Charlena pulled up lame and the race was 
over. 

A dead game sport had put one of the best 
racing prospects in the club out of commis- 



sion, and no one regretted it more than I did, 
and many times wished that it never had hap- 
pened. 

Twenty-five dollars of my money went for 
a set of horse clothing for Rubsley G., $25 for 
a blowout for the boys the next meeting night, 
and $25 to purchase a solid silver mounted 
whip, as a prize to the horse winning the most 
races on the speedway the next season, the hrst 
prize of that value ever given in the Dorches- 
ter Gendemen's Driving Club. The whip was 
won by Princess Ebilo, owned by F. J. Brana. 
She won eight races on the Blue Hill Avenue 
.Speedway during the season. 



How the Champions Passed the Last 
Years of Their Life 

( ISy Charies T. Harris of The Horse Review) 

Editor's Note. — What became of the frottiiic/ and pacing champions after their 
racing days zuere over? When in the height of their turf careers they entciaiucd 
immense throngs at all of the important racing centers of the country, and their 
names zvere by-zvords in innumerable households. With the passing of the old-time 
favorites the question frequently arises as to their ultimate fate. The zvriter ably 
relates these facts. 



THE TROTTING CHAMPIONS 

LADY SUFFOLK, 2:29 1-2, the 
first trotter to beat 2:30 in 
harness, was a gray, foaled in 
1833, and started as a six-year- 
old in long-distance races. Her 
first mile better than 2 130 was in 2 -.28, under 
saddle, July 4, 1843, at the Beacon (L. L) 
course, in which race she defeated Beppo and 
Independence. The next week she defeated 
Beppo and the pacer Oneida Chief, lowering 
her saddle record to 2:26 1-2. On October 13, 
1845, ^Iso over the Beacon course, she beat 
Moscow, after five heats, trotting one of them 
in 2 :29 1-2. This was her best harness rec- 
ord, although she raced up to 1852, in har- 
ness, under saddle and to wagon. She had a 
wonderful career for her time, being on the 
turf fourteen years, in which period she won 
eighty-three races and was beaten forty-one 
times. Lady Suft'olk died on Long Island. 
Although several times bred, she never had a 
foal. For many years her mounted skin was 
on exhibition in the wareroom of the Brew- 
ster Carriage Co., on upper Broadway, New 
York. 

Highland Maid, 2 127, who succeeded Lady 
.Sufifolk, was a bay, foaled 1847, and began 
racing in 1853, but her career was very brief, 
as the records show but four races to her 



credit, only one of which was a victory. Her 
record of 2 127 was made in the second heat 
of a race won by Flora Temple, and in the 
following heat Highland Maid was distanced. 
Her record was tied by the gelding Tacony 
the following month. This mare, as a race 
winner, was a failure, albeit a world's record 
maker. Highland Maid produced several 
foals. During her later years she was owned 
by George C. Hitchcock, of New Preston, 
Conn. 

Flora Temple in August, 1859, set the 
mark at 2 :22, when she beat Princess in a 
match, and equaled the record in September 
at Baltimore, in another match she won from 
Princess. The bob-tailed mare then made her 
way westward, first showing at Kalamazoo, 
where she defeated Princess and Honest 
Anse, trotting the final heat in 2:19 3-4, which 
was then regarded as an amazing perform- 
ance. This mile was Flora Temple's supreme 
eft'ort, her next fastest mile being 2:20 1-2, 
in the match with Ethan Allen and running 
mate at the close of her racing career. Flora 
Temple ultimately passed to the late Aristides 
Welch, proprietor of Chestnut Hill Stud, near 
Philadelphia, afterward known as Erdenheim. 
She produced several foals for Mr. Welch be- 
fore her death in 1877. 

Dexter a brown gelding, foaled in 1858, was 
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in conformity with latter-day ideas. The track 
career of this champion covered but three 
years, from 1864 to 1867, and in that time he 
performed in harness, under saddle and to 
wagon, winning forty-six contested races at 
various hitches and distances, one to three 
miles, and was defeated but four times. His 
first essay against time was in October, 1865, 
to beat 2:19 under saddle, and he went the 
distance in 2:iS 3-4. His next time trial was 
in 1866, to beat his saddle record, and he 
failed. The third was to beat the harness 
record of Flora Temple, starting August 14, 
1867, at Buffalo, and in the second trial he 
trotted in 2:17 1-4. After Dexter's last race 
he was bought by Robert Bonner for the un- 
precedented sum of $33,000. Mr. Bonner 
drove him on the road for some years, and 
up to a year or two before his death, in 1888, 
Dexter was one of New York's "social lions" 
in horse circles. 

After Dexter reigned the incomparable 
Goldsmith Maid. She was a bay, foaled in 
1S57. All told, in the twelve years she was on 
the turf, she trotted 135 races, winning 91. 
She also won 19 contests in which the three 
heats were in 2 :20 or better. Her total of 
heats, in races and against time, was 332. 
.September 2, 1874, found her at Mystic Park, 
where she started against 2:14 3-4, and cut 
the mark to 2:14, a record which stood for 
four years. Goldsmith Maid was retired to 
the breeding ranks at Fashion Stud, Trenton, 
N. J., at the age of twenty-two. The last pub- 
lic appearance of the Maid was at the first 
National Horse Show, in 1884, at JMadison 
-Square Garden, when she was paraded in the 
ring with the ex-champion stallion Smuggler, 
2:15 1-4, who defeated her in 1876 at Cleve- 
land, in one of the greatest old-time races in 
the Grand Circuit. She died in September, 
1885, at Fashion Stud, in her twenty-eighth 
year. 

Rarus, 2:13 1-4, was more celebrated for 
race quality than beauty. He was the fourth 
gelding to figure as a world's champion. A 
bay, foaled 1867, he took his world's record 
in 1878, against time, in the third heat beating 
2:14. This was at Buffalo, August 3. He then 
became an exhibition horse, trotting a few 
matches with Hopeful and Sweetzer, the 
pacer, the best miles he trotted subsequent to 
his record being 2:13 1-2, which he did twice. 
Rarus trotted in all 185 heats in 2 130 or bet- 
ter, and won 43 contested races. After his 
mile in 2:13 1-4, August 14, 1879, ^t Roch- 
ester, he was sold to Mr. Bonner for $36,000, 
and died his property in 1892, aged twenty- 
five years. 

St. Julien, 2:11 1-4, the next world's cham- 



pion, was a bay gelding, foaled 1869. October 
25, 1879, he started at Oakland, Cal, to beat 
2:13 1-4, the world's record, held by Rarus, 
and won in 2:12 3-4. One of the most inter- 
ested witnesses of this feat was General U. S. 
Grant. In 1880 St. Julien was brought East, 
and August 27, at Hartford, he started to beat 
2:11 3-4, his own time record, made at Roch- 
ester, August 12, and trotted the second heat 
in 2:11 1-4. St. Julien was returned to Cali- 
fornia in 1883, and turned out, free to roarn 
where he liked. More than ten years after, the 
old horse was missed from his usual haunts, 
and a search revealed his moldering bones in 
a gully, where he had died months before. 

Jay-Eye-See, 2:10, the twelfth world's 
trotting champion, was a bony-built black 
gelding, foaled 1878, and the first extreme 
record holder that was Southern bred. He was 
bought when a two-year-old by the late Je- 
roane I. Case, of Racine, Wis. In 1884 Ja^•- 
Eve-See was an exhibition horse, starting in 
eight specials. August i he started over the 
new Seth Griffin track at Providence, R. I., to 
beat 2:10 3-4, and trotted the second heat in 
2:10 fiat. This put him at the top, but his 
reign only lasted twenty-four hours, as the 
next day Maud S. trotted in 2 :o9 3-4 at Cleve- 
land. From his fourth year Jay-Eye-See had 
a hind foot that was liable to give way at any 
time, and his retirement in 1884 was none too 
soon. The little black gelding emerged from 
retirement in 1892, but this time as a pacer, 
making his first start to beat 2:25, and 2:17 
was himg out for him. At Chicago he paced 
in 2 :o8 3-4, then went to the kite track at 
Independence and paced in 2 :o6 1-4, which 
record he never beat. Jay-Eye-See was the 
first and only world's champion that ever held 
a double record, i. e., at both gaits. After 
1892 he was a pensioner of the Case family, 
at Racine. Wis., and lived to the ripe age of 
31 years, dying in June, 1909. 

Maud S., who deposed first St. Julien, then 
Jay-Eye-.See. in short order, was a golden 
chestnut, foaled in 1874, at famous Woodburn 
Farm. The story of her sale to William H. 
V^anderbilt, when a four-year-old, for $21,000 
and the attempts of various trainers to get into 
her good graces, until William W. Blair 
proved to be the "only" man, is an oft-told 
tale. Maud S. was one of the few world's 
champions that never suft'ered defeat, although 
her contests against other horses were com- 
paratively few. She started four times against 
the watch in 1884, and on the third essay, at 
Cleveland, she beat the record of Jay-Eye-See 
by trotting in 2 :o9 3-4. A few days later she 
became the property of Robert Bonner, who 
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that year at Lexington, where she again low- 
ered the record, this time to 2 :o9 1-4. In 
1885 she made but two pubHc starts, the first 
of which was at Cleveland, where she lowered 
the record — the seventh tim.e she "beat the 
world" — to 2 :o8 3-4. Maud S. was repeatedly 
bred, but failed to get with foal. After her 
death, in March, 1900, a post-mortem ex- 
amination revealed the fact that, owing to 
uterine malformation, conception by her was 
an impossibility. 

Sunol, bred at Palo Alto Farm in Califor- 
nia, was foaled in 1886. In 1891, against time, 
at Stockton, Cal, she made her record of 
2:08 1-4. This made her the youngest trotter 
that ever held the world's championship. Mr. 
Bonner paid $41,000 for her, when a three- 
year-old, in 1889, but at his death she had 
never been bred. She then passed to John H. 
Shults, and produced two foals. Later she 
passed to A. B. Coxe, Paoli, Pa., and ^May 5, 
1909, breathed her last, aged twenty-three. 

Nancv Hanks, foaled 1886, was the first 
champion to have the advantage of the bike 
sulky. At Chicago, in August, 1892, hooked 
to the new styled vehicle, she trotted in 
2 :o7 1-4, a new world's record, and the same 
month was at Independence, where she beat 
that record two seconds. A month after 
she was at the "four-cornered" track at Terre 
Haute, where she put the high water mark at 
2:04. In 1893 she passed to the late J. Mal- 
colm Forbes, owner of the Forbes Farm, 
Ponkapoag, Mass. Of all the world's cham- 
pions, Nancy Hanks has done the most for the 
perpetuation and progress of the trotting 
type. She died the property of Edward and 
Joseph Madden, Hamburg Place, Lexington, 
ky. 

Nancy Hanks was succeeded by Alix, 
2:03 3-4, who, in 1894, reduced the world's 
record by a quarter-second. Alix was a bay, 
foaled 1888. September 6, 1894, at Indian- 
apolis, she started against the 2 :o4 of Nancy 
Hanks, and trotted in 2 :04 3-4. which she cut 
the next week at Terre Haute to 2 :o4. Next, 
at Galesburg, she tried again, and measured 
the mile in 2 :o3 3-4. This mile earned her the 
coveted championship position, and although 
she tried repeatedly the remainder of that sea- 
son and in 1895 to do better, the efforts were 
fruitless. In 1898 Alix was sold by the late 
Morris J. Jones to F. C. Sayles, of Pawtucket, 
R. I. Alix died October 19. iqoi. aged thir- 
teen years, one of the shortest lived of all the 
trotting champions. 

The successor of Alix was The Abbott, 
when once more a gelding "led all the rest." 
However, his reign was brief. The Abbott 
was a bay, foaled 1893 at Village Farm. The 



year 1900, his initial start was August 22, at 
Readville, to beat 2 :o6 1-4, which he did in 
2 :o5 3-4. August 30, at Providence, he trot- 
ted in 2 :o4 3-4, and September 6 was at Hart- 
ford, where he started to beat the wagon 
record of 2 :o9 1-4, and won in 2 105 1-4. The 
following week, at New York, he went against 
2 :o4 3-4, and trotted in 2 :o4. The Abbott 
was then shipped West, starting at Terre 
Haute against 2:04, trotting in 2:03 1-4, 
which lowered Alix's record. The Abbott 
died February 19, 1904, the property of J. J. 
Scannell, Peekskill, N. Y. 

Cresceus was the first, and is still, the only 
stallion to hold the world's trotting record. 
He was foaled in 1894. The close of 1900 
found him with a record of 2 104. He had 
twelve starts that year, the majority being 
against the watch. The stallion in 1901 was 
regarded as the strongest claimant to the trot- 
ting throne, and when the Grand Circuit con- 
tingent reached Columbus, after having first 
touched 2 :o2 3-4 at Cleveland, Cresceus trot- 
ted in 2:02 1-4. From 1901 to 1903 he was 
carried all over the country as an exhibition 
horse by his breeder and owner, George H. 
Ketcham, of Toledo, O., who, in 1905, sold 
him to I\I. W. Savage, owner of Dan Patch, 
who in turn sold him to Capt. Tchmertzin, of 
St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1908. Cresceus is 
the only world's champion trotter ever ex- 
ported to Europe. 

Lou Dillon, i :^8 1-2, Sidney Dillon's 
daughter, a chestnut, was foaled in 1898. Of 
all the world's champions, none had a briefer 
or more meteoric career. She was bred m 
California, where she was educated and first 
trained. The news of her remarkably fast 
workouts led to her sale to C. K. G. Billings, 
in May, 1903, and July 4, 1903, Lou started 
on her unprecedented public career at Cleve- 
land. L'nlike preceding champions, she did 
not work her way up from the ranks. To the 
contrary, she was a born star, and her maiden 
start was against the 2 103 3-4 of Alix, but 
she failed to beat it, trotting in 2:04 1-4; bu. 
the week after she accomplished the task, 
trotting in 2:03 1-2, which again, on July 31, 
she reduced to 2 :o2 3-4. She tried to beat 
this mark next at Brighton Beach, and failed. 
The next week she was at Readville, where 
she trotted in 2 :oo. Going \Vest, she started at 
Cleveland, in September, to beat Maud S.'s 
2 :o8 3-4 to high-wheel sulky, and the mile was 
in 2 -.05. In October she was at Lexington, 
starting against 2 :04 3-4 to wagon, and placed 
the record at that hitch at 2:01 3-4. Her next 
start was at Memphis, where she beat Major 
Delmar for the Gold Cup, trotting the two 
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mile, in 1 158 1-2, was made at the same meet- 
ing, four days later, Loti starting against 2 :oo. 
October 28 she went against her wagon rec- 
ord of 2 :oi 3-4, and beat it by a well-rated 
mile in 2 :oo flat. In 1909 she made her 
memorable exhibition tour of Europe, aston- 
ishing the public in Germany, Russia and 
Austria by her marvelous speed, after three 
years spent in the harem, although in foal at 
the time. She is still the property of C. K. G. 
Billings, of Chicago. 

Next, and last in the line of trotting cham- 
pions, comes the mighty Uhlan, a bay gelding, 
foaled in 1904, and bred by Arthur H. Parker, 
Bedford, Mass. In 1907 Mr. Parker sold the 
gelding to Charles Sanders, of Salem, Mass., 
for $2,500, and that Fall, in a matinee race to 
wagon, he won in 2:13 3-4. He was turned 
over to Robert Proctor to train, and in 190S 
got a record of 2:07 1-4. The following sea- 
son Uhlan, at Cleveland, forced Hamburg 
Belle to a new world's race record for trot- 
ters, of 2 :oi 1-4, and later, at Readville, de- 
feated the mare, earning a race record of 
2:03 1-2, which still remains (1914) the 
world's race record for trotting geldings. He 
was sold after the Readville race to C. K. G. 
Billings, of Chicago, for $35,000, and Charles 
Tanner became his trainer and driver. Be- 
fore going into Winter quarters, in 1910, he 
had taken a record of i :58 3-4, made at Cleve- 
land against time, and a wagon record of 2 :oi. 
Uhlan failed to lower his best mark in 191 1, 
his mile against time at Lexington, Ky., of 
1 :59 1-2, being his best effort. However, he 
accomplished the remarkable feat of trotting 
the Goshen, N. Y., half-mile track in 2 :o2 3-4. 
the world's record for a twice-around course. 
He also got the world's record, to wagon, of 
56 1-4 seconds, and twice tied Lou Dillon's 
wagon record of 2 :oo, C. K. G. Billings driv- 
ing him in one of the heats, which marked a 
new world's record driven by an amateur. 
The season of 1912 Uhlan was, early in the 
year, shipped to Europe with several others 
of Mr. Billings' stable, and driven exhibition 
heats. He was particularly appreciated by the 
Russians, who marveled at his tremendous 
speed. Returning to the United States, he was 
put in shape by Mr. Tanner for trips against 
the watch. At Lexington, Ky., on October 8. 
he lowered the world's trotting record to i :58, 
and did so in the open (without aid of a 
windshield). At the same meeting, LHilan. 
hitched double with Lewis Forrest, who was 
bred by a New Hampshire man, lowered the 
world's pole record to 2:03 1-4, a reduction of 
4 1-2 seconds. With his retirement from the 
turf. Uhlan still remains the property of Mr. 
Billings. On pleasant forenoons in Central 



Park, New York, can frequently be seen the 
famous gelding, gaily stepping along the 
saddle paths with his owner up, and by Mr. 
Billings' own words, Uhlan is a perfect saddle 
horse. 



THE PACING CHAMPIONS 

The first horse to beat 2 130 was the pacer 
Drover, ridden under saddle by Hiram \A'ood- 
ruff in 1839, in a race. But saddle records do 
not count in this narrative, so the champion- 
ship in harness began with Unknown, the 
chestnut gelding, in 1844, who beat Fairy 
Queen to wagon in 2 123. Unknown seems to 
have had but this one race to his credit, and he 
never afterward paced near his record. The 
pacing record of 2:23 stood for seven years, 
when the roan gelding Pet lowered it to 
2:21 1-4, cutting this the next year to 2:18 1-2. 

Then Pocahontas, the stout chestnut daugh- 
ter of Irons' Cadmus, set a mark that stood 
at the top for a long term of years. This old- 
time champion did not figure in many races, 
but few as they were, they were all victories. 
Her last race was June, 1855, at the old Union 
Course, Long Island, when she beat Hero, 
both to wagon, distancing her opponent in 
the first heat in 2:171-2. This remarkabL 
mare was foaled 1847. In 1854 she was racer' 
by Otis Dimmick, and then passed to Jas. D. 
McMann, who drove her to her record. 
Woodmansee sold her in 1856 to R. S. Denny, 
Watertown, Mass. In 1870 she was owned 
by John G. Wood, West Millbury.. Mass., and 
from Wood passed to Amasa Sprague, of 
Providence, R. I., whose property she died in 
1873 or 1874. 

In 1869, the dun gelding Yankee Sam. date 
of foaling and breeding unknown, cut the pac- 
ing record to 2:161-2. He started racing in 
1866 and made his last appearance in 1872. 
Out of eleven races he won six. His world's 
mark was made Oct. 21, 1879, at Ulrichsville, 
Ohio, in a winning race with Shackelford, 
Maggie Mitchell and Grey Dan, pacing the 
first, third and fifth heats in 2:19 1-2, 2:16 1-2, 
and 2:19 1-2. As to what became of him his- 
tory is silent. 

The next notable pacing champion was 
Sleepy Tom, chestnut gelding, foaled 1868, 
and a son of Tom Rolfe, the son of Pocahon- 
tas. When a three-year-old, his owner, Isaac 
Dingier, of Bellwood, Ohio, had him trained 
and he paced a few races but won none. In 
1873 he won one race and got a record of 
2:401-2. The following year a cold settled 
in his eyes and he began to go blind, winning 
but one race. One winning race in 1875 ^^'^s 
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second. In 1876 ]Mr. Dingier sold him to one 
Millard, who treated him brutally, and traded 
him to William H. Corry, of Zenia, Ohio, for 
"the crippled colt Gum Elastic Bill, an oroide 
watch and a quart of bad whisky." Corry sold 
him to Steve C. Phillips for $2. 50 and a jug 
of rye. Phillips raced him until he sold him 
in 1879 to Joe Udell, of Wisconsin, for 
.'|;6,ooo. In 1878 Sleepy Tom won seven races, 
with the best mile in 2 :2i 3-4. His first win- 
ning race in 1879 ^'^-^ ^^ Jackson, Mich., 
where he beat Rowdy Boy, Lucy, Bay Sally, 
Mattie Hunter and Sleepy George, taking a 
record of 2 -.17 1-4. He won also at East Sagi- 
naw, Toledo, Louisville, Columbus, Cincin- 
nati, and Chicago, beating practically the same 
fields. At Chicago he made his world's rec- 
ord, pacing the last heat of a five-heat battle 
in 2:12 1-2, beating Mattie Hunter, Lucy and 
Rowdy Boy. From that time on the quar- 
tette were known as "The Big Four." He 
won in all thirty races out of fifty-six starts. 
L'dell sold Sleepy Tom late in the fall of 1882 
to Dr. Olin, of Chicago, who drove him in his 
medical practice. After passing through sev- 
eral other hands the old fellow finally met a 
tragic death, perishing in a burning stable in a 
small Indiana town in 1885. 

Sleepy Tom was succeeded as pacing cham- 
pion by Little Brown Jug, a brown gelding, 
foaled in 1875. In 1880 he was purchased by 
H. V. Bennis, of Chicago, for $3,000, and 
placed in the hands of "Knapsack" McCar- 
thy, and did not appear in public again until 
the next year, 1881, when his career was 
comet-like, culminating at Hartford, Conn., 
Aug. 24, where for a purse of $2,000 he beat 
Mattie Hunter and Lucy, pacing three con- 
secutive heats in 2:113-4, 2:113-4, and 
2:12 1-2. He won ten races that season, and 
this, in connection with his world's record, 
caused his purchase, the next year, by Com- 
modore Kittson, of St. Paul, at a price said to 
have been $15,000. He proved a dear pur- 
chase, however, as he went lame soon after 
and did little good, winning but two hippo- 
drome races and going several disappointing 
exhibitions. His history thereafter was of ups 
and downs, as he passed through many hands, 
finally descending to nearly the lowest round 
of the ladder ; but at last, his condition be- 
coming known, he was rescued and taken back 
to Teimessee, where he was pensioned at Ewell 
Farm, and died in peace and plenty when well 
along toward his thirtieth year. 

The bay gelding Johnston, that succeeded 
"The Jug," was foaled 1877. This horse was 
the most remarkable of the pacers in the ante- 
Dneumatic tire days. He was known prior to his 
fifth year as Charley M., but E. H. Smith, of 



Chicago, who purchased a controlling interest 
in him, changed the name to Johnston, in 
honor of Peter V. Johnston, who trained and 
first raced him. Every start by Johnston in 
1883 was a victory, and he closed that year 
with a world's record of 2:10, his last three 
starts being against time. After his 2:10 rec- 
ord was made he was sold to Commodore Kitt- 
son for $20,000. Driven by John Splan, he 
made eleven starts in 1884 under the Kittson 
colors, five of which were unsuccessful tilts 
against his own record, until October 3, at 
Chicago. He was started that day over the 
Garfield Park track with Richball, each to beat 
their records. Johnston, driven by Splan, suc- 
ceeded, pacing the first quarter in 32s., the half 
in I :o3 1-4, and the mile in 2:06 1-4, which is 
still the unbeaten mile by a harness horse to 
high wheels over a circular track. In 1886 
he was sold to Frank Siddals, of Philadelphia, 
for the reported price of $12,500. Siddals 
started him sixteen times in 1887, six of which 
were winning contested races, two to wagon, 
the others exhibitions. His wagon record of 
2 :i4 1-2 was made in a losing race with Harry 
Wilkes to sulky. Johnston was then consigned 
to a Lexington sale and passed to Col. John 
\\'. Conley, of Chicago, at a cost of $3,900. 
Col. Conley turned the horse over to Budd 
Doble, who drove him eight times against the 
watch in 18S8. In 1889 Johnston paced in 
2 :o6 1-2 at Cleveland, and in 2 :o6 3-4 at Hart- 
ford. He was sold in 1890 to C. F. Dunbar, 
of Bufifalo. Age was telling seriously on 
Johnston, and 1891 was his last year of racing, 
but he was good enough when sixteen years 
old to pace a mile in 2:10 over the half-mile 
track at Youngstown, Ohio, driven by his 
owner. Johnston died in the late nineties at 
Buffalo, having been well cared for to the last. 
Mascot, the bay gelding by Deceive, foaled 
1885. was the first champion to beat 2 :o5, ty- 
ing the trotting record of 2 :o4 made by Nancy 
Hanks in 1892, at Terre Haute, over the same 
track and at the same meeting. As a seven- 
year-old, in W. J. Andrews' hands, he showed 
much higher form, and his last appearance 
for the year, at Terre Haute, where he met 
Guy and Flying Jib and was defeated, but he 
won the first heat in 2 :o4 — a world's record. 
In 1893 Mascot made nine starts, six of which 
werf bracketed. His best race of that year 
was in July, at Detroit, where he defeated 
Hal Pointer, Major Wonder. Flying Jib. Guy, 
^Manager and Blue Sign in the hottest pacing 
contest of the campaign. The heats were in 
2 :o7, 2 :o4 1-2, 2 :o6 1-4, 2 :o7 1-2, 2 :o7 1-2, of 
which Mascot won the second, third and fifth, 
the fastest five-heat race of the period. In 
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L. G. Tewksbury, of New York, who used 
him for road driving. Thence he passed 
through many hands, East and West, and was 
last heard of in South Dakota. 

Robert J., the next pacing champion, was a 
bay gelding, foaled 1888. 1894 was the "ban- 
ner year" for Robert. He made sixteen 
starts, in but one of which he was not credited 
with races or heats won. He encountered the 
very flower of the pacing division and came off 
with flying colors. He beat stout Joe Patchen 
at Chicago, setting the record for three pacing 
heats. At Fort Wayne he vanquished Mascot 
and Flying Jib, marking himself down to 
2 :03 3-4, and at Indianapolis again beat Joe 
Patchen, 2 :o2 1-2 being his record when the 
smoke blew over. His other winnings were over 
Joe and John R. Gentry, and at Terre Haute, 
against time, he earned the championship rec- 
ord of 2:01 1-2. During the best part of his 
career he was owned at Village Farm, East 
Aurora, N. Y., and driven by Ed. Geers. He 
then passed to L. G. Tewksbury, who toured 
him in exhibitions with John R. Gentry and 
drove him on the New York speedway. Fi- 
nally he was repurchased by the Hamlins and 
retired at Village Farm, ostensibly to end his 
days in peace, but not long after the death of 
the elder Hamlin, in 1905, the turf world was 
shocked to learn that an employee of the farm, 
tiring of caring for him, had deliberately 
killed him in a most brutal way. Thus died 
one of the greatest and gamest pacers that ever 
lived. 

It was now destined that a stallion should 
for the first time hold the championship pac- 
ing record. This was John R. Gentry, "the 
little red horse," who was foaled in 1889. He 
raced from 1892 to 1900. In 1894 he closed 
with a record of 2 :o3 3-4, having been sold in 
the Summer for $10,000 to Holt & Scott, of 
Graham, N. C. In 1895 began his series of 
duels with Joe Patchen, in which the two 
proved so evenly matched. At Dubuque that 
year he equaled his record of 2 103 3-4 in a 
third heat. In the early spring of 1896 he was 
sold at public sale to William Simpson, for 
$7,600. He was started eleven times that 
year, with varying success. Late in September 
he was at Rigly Park, Portland, Me., where he 
started against Robert J.'s 2:01 1-2, and paced 
in 2:001-2. John R. Gentry afterward be- 
came the property of the late E. H. Harri- 
man, Goshen, N. Y. 

Heretofore the majority of the pacing 
champions were mainly trotting bred, but a 
year after John R. Gentry had made his rec- 
ord, the Clown passed once more to a member 
of the Hal family, a pacing strain that has 
stuck to that gait with remarkable tenacitv. 



This was Star Pointer, a bay horse, foaled 
1889, who first saw the light in Tennessee. He 
was sold as a yearling to J. W. Titley, a Penn- 
sylvania breeder, who started him as a two- 
year-old and gave him a record of 2:341-4. 
He next appeared in his five-year-old form as 
a member of the Geers stable, and from 1894 to 
1899 was among the turf stars of the first mag- 
nitude. At the close of the campaign of 1896, 
previous to which he was purchased by Ed. 
Mills, of Boston, and passed into Dave Mc- 
Clary's hands, he was credited with 2 :o2 1-4, 
which was the time of the first heat of a win- 
ning race at Mystic Park, where he beat 
Frank Agan and Robert J. His ever-mem- 
orable year on the turf was 1897, when he 
started sixteen times, the majority matches, or 
against time. After a few victories early in 
the season he started in August at Readville 
to beat the record of John R. Gentry, and put 
the high mark at i :59 1-4. This, the first 
crossing of the 2 :oo line by a harness horse, 
made a tremendous sensation, as was natural, 
and the time of the quarters shows how splen- 
didly he was rated: the first in 30s., the sec- 
ond in 293-43., the third in 29 1-4S., and the 
fourth in 30 1-4S. Nearly all the other starts 
of this king among horses were against time. 
In 1898, he equaled his record, at Columbus, 
and paced in 2 :oi 1-2 at Detroit. Three miles 
in 2:00 and better in one season was a great 
feat. His only two starts in 1899 were at Hart- 
ford, where he paced in 2 :oo, and at New 
York, where he was beaten in the free-for-all 
stallion race by Joe Patchen and John R. Gen- 
try and retired from the contest permanently 
broken down. After a few seasons in Ohio. 
Star Pointer was taken to California, making 
several seasons there, and was then taken back 
to his old home in Tennessee. 

Foaled 1896, the brown stallion Dan Patch, 

1 :55 1-4, from the day he started in 1900 to 
the close of his racing career in 1902, never 
suft'ered defeat in a contested race. He paced 
fifty-seven heats in the three years against 
other horses, and lost but two. This record was 
paralleled by but two other world's cham- 
pions, Maud S. and Nancy Hanks, the trot- 
ters. The first mile paced by Dan Patch that 
was better than 2 :oo was at Providence, Aug. 
29, 1902, when he stepped in i :S9 1-2 to beat 

2 :oo 1-4. All his subsequent starts were against 
time. His first heat in 1903 was a half in 
57 3-4 seconds at Columbus. His next was a 
mile in i :59 behind a runner, at Brooklyn, 
.Again at Columbus he equaled his record. At 
Lexington he started to beat 2:01 1-2 to 
wagon and paced in i :59 1-4. At Macon, Ga., 
he paced two miles in 4:17, to beat 4:19. At 
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in I 06 1-4, and at the same meeting lowered 
the wagon record to i :57 1-4, and the half- 
mile mark to 56 seconds. Seven miles in 2 :oo 
and better were to his credit when he retired 
to Winter quarters in 1903. In 1904 Dan 
started only five times, lowering his record to 
1 156 at Memphis. In 1905 his first mile bet- 
ter than 2 :oo was at Hamline, where he paced 
in 1 :5y 1-2, five days after pacing in i :57 1-2 
over the same track. At Lexington he again 
paced in i :56, and two days later made his 
best technical record, I 155 1-4. He then went 
If) Memphis, where he paced against time, in 



the open, in 2:00, 1:591-4, 2:00 and 1:58. 
He started six times, beating 2:00 in every 
efifort. Six starts were also made by him in 
1907, but his best mile that year was in 
1 :57 1-2, at Phoenix, Ariz. Two miles better 
than 2 :oo were paced by him in 1908. Dan's 
last exhibitions were in 1909, starting six 
times, five of them with Minor Heir. With 
windshield he paced in i -.55 flat, which rec- 
ord, however, does not stand as a technical 
one, and 2 :o2 3-4 to high wheels, behind a run- 
ner, which latter performance is a record. 
Dan Patch is owned by M. ^^^ Savage, Min- 
neapolis, Alinn. 



Incidents in Eventful Career of Noted 
Driver, Dan Mace 

(By James O'Neill) 

Editor's Note. — Dan Mace, in his day, zcas the most noted trainer and driver of 
the trotting horse in the country, and none is more capable for relating the inside 
stories of some of his principal races than James O'Neill, zvho, besides attending to 
all of his clerical work, keeping his books and correspondence, etc., zvas manager of 
his blacksmith shop. Mr. O'Neill remainei zvith Mr Mace until the time of his death, 
on April 19, 1885, the result of bright's disease. Mr. Mace ivas 52 years old when he 
passed azvav, and in his ivill he left Mr. O'Neill the blacksmith shop. 

It zvas in 1875 that Mr. Mace got Hopeful, 2:14 3-4, the noted trotting gelding that 
zvas bred by the late Benjamin D. Whitcomb, former president of the Nezv England 
Trotting Horse Breeders' Association. Mr. O'Neill, in the Trotter and Pacer, re- 
ferred particularly to the campaign of this famous trotter, and of Darby, 2:161-2, 
the season of 1879 through the Grand Circuit, zvhen Hopeful's net zvinnings 
atnouutcd to the neat sum of $21,000, but to let Mr. O'Neill give his ozvn version of 
the particular events in Mr. Mace's life : 



AT the close of the campaign of 
1879 Dan came in the office one 
forenoon and asked that the bill 
of Thomas P. Wallace, of New 
York, owner of Darby, be made 
out with the check for the amount due him. 
After figuring up the account, I handed Mace 
the check for $14,000, and hours later he re- 
turned and, throwing the check on my desk, 
said: "Mr. Wallace carefully went over the 
account. He then asked me if I had not 
robbed myself, and insisted that I keep the en- 
tire amount." That afternoon I destroyed the 
check. This will show the kind of patrons the 
noted trainer and driver had around him. 

For several years the racing associations 
through Michigan, Ohio, Minnesota, etc., had 
been oft'erihg Mace big inducements to bring 
his string of campaigners out over their 
tracks. This was in the seventies; about 1878, 
I believe. He had that Spring, at Point 
P>reeze, nineteen horses. "Knap" McCarthy 



did all of the conditioning, and Dan would 
run over to the track two or three times every 
week to drive them, so as to be able to find 
which he thought good enough to take away 
racing. 

Of the best ones in his stable I recall Hope- 
ful. Richard, Darby, Midnight, Red Jim, Ella 
Jones and Kitty Jacks. Those New Yorkers 
who had horses with Dan were in the habit 
of going every Sunday to the track to see 
their horses work. When it came to shipping 
W^est it proved that only si.x of the number 
were considered fast enough to take along, 
such as Hopeful, Darby, Midnight, and three 
others. 

His first start was in the Michigan Circuit, 
opening up at Adrian and then Jackson, where 
he met defeat with his pet trotter Hopeful, by 
a mare called Proteine, owned in Cincinnati. 
Of course, this made Dan sore, but worse was 
yet in store, as at Toledo, a few weeks later, 
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the latter having the thumps. After the race 
Dan was the most down-hearted person you 
ever saw over the defeat, while, on the other 
hand, the owners of the mare were equally 
overjoyed. In the heat of their enthusiasm 
they challenged Dan for another race to come 
ofif the following Monday week at Cleveland, 
offering to back Proteine against Hopeful at 
$2,000 to $10,000. 

This proposition Mace refused, telling the 
owners of the mare that both horses were en- 
tered in the free-for-all at Cleveland, on 
Thursday, and they would then have the 
( hance of betting just as much money as they 
wislied. It proved to be a great betting race, 
J^roteine ruling a heavy choice over the field. 
I\Iace rather liked the improvement in Hopeful 
since his defeat at Toledo, and in the selling 
ilown of the starters had an order in the pool 
box for all of those cheap tickets. 

When the sun went down over the hills that 
evening Proteine had received her Waterloo. 
Hopeful was her conqueror. The owners of 
the mare were out over $10,000 on the result 
of the contest, as they had been so positive 
that she was invincible they backed her to the 
limit. It is perhaps needless to state that a. 
good share of that money went in cashing 
Mace's tickets. 

When we read of horses trotting half miles 
in from I :oi 1-2 to 1 103 nowadays we are apt 
to think it quite a feat, but it should be 
stated that it was very common- to see Hope- 
ful step to the half in his races in i 103 and 
I 104, and in those days there were no bike 
sulkies, while the tracks were not nearly as 
fast as is now the case. With the conditions 
pertaining at the present period I firmly be- 
lieve Hopeful would easily have raced in bet- 
ter than 2:10. 

I'll relate a neat coup that Mace engineered 
at Ionia, Mich., and executed at Quincy the 
following week. He had a little trotter named 
Gossip, Jr., entered in the slow classes against 
a very fast horse from Cincinnati called Big 
John, and the owners of the latter were up 
there to make a killing. Nothing but taking 
oft' the pool box would suit them. 

Big John was made a big favorite, while 
Gossip. Jr.. was selling for a song. Mace 
played his gelding to win $1,500, and won the 
race, but at that he had little confidence in 
Gossip, Jr., as he was unreliable, sometimes 
taking it into his head to sto]), when he 
couldn't be moved an inch. 

Well, the next week at Grand Rapids, be- 
fore the race, Dan worked Gossip, Jr., and 
said that he did not like him^ and if he was 
made favorite he intended playing against 
him, for he had no idea he was capable of 



winning. The betting proved to be Gossip, Jr., 
$100; field, $40. Mace sent in an order to 
play the field. 

Gossi]), Jr., took the initial heat in 2:28, 
making him a bigger favorite at $100 to $30 
over the field. Dan continued playing out his 
hand by sending another order into the pool 




DAN MACE 

box on the little end. However, Gossip, Jr., 
was again first to the wire in 2 -.zj. This 
caused little betting before the third heat, but 
Dan had field tickets knocked oft' to him in a 
way not to arouse suspicion. Scoring for the 
heat Gossip, Jr., began his antics ; he would 
break, sulk, and behaved so badly that the 
judges had finally to send oft' the field without 
him. He caught the distance flag. 

W^ow ! ! ! How the crowd did yell and storm 
about, declaring at the top of their voices it 
was one of Mace's slick tricks. To satisfy 
the public, the judges called it no heat, and 
put up a prominent Western driver in Dan's 
place. It made no difference, however, as 
Gossip. Jr., was done for that day and made 
his standstill breaks, getting the flag again. 

That night when Mace went to town, the 
first thing he did was to go to the freight sta- 
tion to find out what it would cost to ship 
Gossip, Jr., to Trenton, N. J., where he was 
owned by Henry M. Smith, of the Fashion 
P'arm. ^Vhile making the arrangements to 
ship, a reporter slipped into the freight ofifice 
and sat down on a barrel. He had both ears 
wide open to catch any news of the race of 
that afternoon for his paper ; there had been 
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* "I have had bad luck enough with that 
who he was, but did not let on. Before leav- 
jug the office he remarked to the freight agent : 
iiorse. Now that he has broke me I am 
mighty glad to get rid of him." 

In the next morning paper the reporter 
showed he had grabbed the bait, hook and all, 
as there was a column and a half story telling 
how Gossip, Jr., had broke Mace and the 
party with him, and as a result the gelding 
had been shipped home. The truth of the mat- 
ter was that Mace's winnings were $9,800. 

One of the lovable characteristics of Mace 
was his fondness for children. When we 
struck Quincy, 111., he went to one of the 
prominent members of the association, John 
Allen, originally a Providence man, whom Dan 
had known previous years in the East, and 
made arrangements that on Thursday, the day 
he was down to exhibit Hopeful, all of the 
school children and little orphans would be ad- 
mitted free. Then Dan ordered a big ox 
killed and roasted in the infield for a barbecue. 
He paid all of the expenses. The management 
bought a floral wreath to put on Hopeful. It 
certainly was a great day for the kids in 
Quincy. 

The week before this at Danville, 111., Mace 
had been thrown from the sulky and had his 
shoulder dislocated, so that he was compelled 
to drive Hopeful at Quincy with one hand, 
his other one being in a sling. It was so pain- 
ful that after the mile, on alighting from the 
sulky, he fell to the ground in a faint. Imme- 
diately the children rushed to the track and 
set up a great cry, believing that their bene- 
factor was seriously injured. There were over 
7,500 persons in the grandstand, too, that 
were greatly concerned as to Mace's condition. 
Fifteen minutes after being taken to his stable 
he revived and appeared again in the quarter- 
stretch. When the children and crowd saw 
that he was all right, the most spontaneous 
burst of applause came forth that was ever 
heard on a race track. Everybody fairly went 
wild. 

Mace drove many match races on wnich 
large suins of money depended. One occurred 
at the old Prospect track, near where the 
Gravesend running track was located. It 
was between Edward and Richard. Frank 
Work owned the former and Foster Dewey, 
Richard. The match was for $5,000 a side, 
making $io,oco up. 

The day of the race was cloudy, but Dan 
went prepared, as that forenoon he had a pair 
of mud shoes (shoes calked) slipped on Rich- 
ard, for the event was play or pay. Johnny 
Murphy did the honors behind Edward. It 
began to rain before the opening heat, making 



the track heavy and slippery. Edward was a 
big favorite. Richard won the first heat in 
2:21 1-2. When it came to the second the 
continued rain had made the track deep in 
mud, but Dan had the big advantage through 
his shrewdness in having Richard shod in 
iinticipation of the weather. The mud shoes 
told the story, as the race was over in straight 
heats, Richard winning. 

I think that the last race that Mace drove 
was at Springfield. Mass., August 29. 1883. In 
the race were such horses as Overman, J. B. 
Thomas, Romero, Minnie A., and Josephus, 
the last being the property of the late David 
Stephenson. Mace was engaged to drive Jo- 
sephus. There had always been great rivalry 
between Hickok, who had Overman, and 
Mace. Rain had made the track quite heavy, 
but Dan was particularly anxious to defeat 
Hickok on any account. Mace drew the pole, 
and next came Overman. One of the drivers 
in the race was Jimmy Golden. 

Now it should be borne in mind that Jo- 
sephus was not the gamest trotter ever bred. 
He won the initial heat in 2:21 1-2, but was 
very tired. Mace had the management roll 
the track before the second, to settle the mud 
some. After a desperate finish Josephus cap- 
tured the second heat right in 2 :2o, but he 
fairly staggered the last end of the route. It 
surely looked all over for Mace to win, but 
right here was where his wonderful sagacity 
came into play. 

No sooner had Josephus reached the stall, 
at the conclusion of the heat, than Dan sent 
for the blacksmith and had him take the heads 
off the nails in one of the forward shoes, so 
that when he came out for the third heat the 
shoe would fall off. W'hen this happened the 
judges gave Dan the requested time to have 
the shoe replaced, but before he got round 
for the heat nearly an hour and a quarter had 
passed, and Josephus was then well rested. It 
was not easy for Mace to w'in, though, as 
never in all of his career on the turf did he 
drive a harder or more clever heat. By almost 
riding the gelding on the back he just man- 
aged to reach the wire a neck to the good. The 
time of the heat was 2:21 1-2. Many who • 
had seen Dan drive for years have declared 
it was the best race he ever drove. The Hickok 
party lost a large pot of money on the result, 
and a portion of it went into Mace's pocket. 
This was Dan's last race. 

All the time Mace was doing somebody a 
good turn. I can call to memory once when 
away racing we came to a meeting where he 
met a man with a horse entered who had not 
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])ealed to Dan, and he settled for the fee. Not 
that alone, as when the afternoon of the race 
came, he drove the horse for the man, and got 
second money. His price for driving in a race 
was always high, but in this instance he gave 
his services free. The following evening I 
happened over to the railroad depot, and who 
should I meet going away but the man Mace 
had assisted. Now he had not paid back to 
Dan that money for entrance on the horse, so 
T hurried over to the hotel and told Dan that 



the man he had befriended was skinning out 
without settling with him. He said to me: 

"Let the poor fellow go ; he may need the 
money in another place." 

There is no doubt that at one time Mace 
was worth over $100,000, but at his death, in 
1885, he left little property, as he had lost 
the most he had in bad speculations. His habits 
were temperate, and in the last iive years of 
his life he quit smoking entirely, and only 
occasionally took a glass of wine. 



Weil-Bred Horse with Quality and 
Soundness is Best for Business 

( Hy Henry C. Merwin ) 

Permission of An. Horse Br:-.-Jcr 

Editor's Note. — There is no person more capable of knozving the future of the 
zvork-horse than Henry C. Merzvin, president of the Boston Work-Horse Relief Asso- 
ciation, therefore, his statement of facts must prove of immense benefit to all identified 
zvith the business horse. 



SIX years ago, the Boston Work-Horse 
Relief Association (then called the 
\\'ork-Horse Parade Association) is- 
sued a small pamphlet, written by 
Gilbert Tompkins on the work-horse 
and the automobile. As the result of a careful 
investigation made by him for the association, 
Mr. Tompkins strongly advised horse breeders 
in the ^^'est to raise as many good animals as 
their farms would support. If this advice had 
been followed, everybody concerned would 
now be better off. The price of work-horses 
is much higher than it was six years ago, and 
all signs indicate that it will go higher still. 

For long hauls, the auto-truck may be, and 
probably is, more economical than horses, but, 
for short hauls, the case is just the opposite. 
The use of the commercial car is increasing, no 
doubt, but the increase is very slow, indeed — 
and is more apparent than real. In many 
cases, prominent concerns are using auto- 
trucks, leased to them at a low rate, with the ex- 
pectation that the advertisement thus obtained 
will compensate for the loss in rental. In other 
cases, the use of the automobile is an experi- 
ment, and such experiments usually end in dis- 
aster. We hear frequently, it is true, of busi- 
ness concerns that are buying or hiring auto- 
cars, but, im the other hand, we hear fre- 
quently of other business concerns that are 
giving them up as being economically impos- 
sible. The cost of repairs and the deprecia- 
tion are enormous. 



At the Boston Work-Horse Parade, in 1913, 
there were 1,225 entries, as against 1.062 en- 
tries the year before. It was estimated that 
the number would have been about twenty-live 
greater had it not been for the competition of 
the automobile. In other words, the loss oc- 
casioned by the automobile amounted to about 
two per cent of the total number of entries. 
Nothing very alarming in that ! 

Unless some startling improvements are 
made, which will greatly lower the cost or in- 
crease the durability of the commercial auto- 
mobile, there is no prospect of any serious 
competition between it and the horse for many 
years to come. In fact, some mechanical en- 
gineers believe that the horse will never be 
superseded for short hauls. "The horse," 
they say, "is the most economical machine yet 
invented." 

But let no one think that he can make money 
by raising an inferior work-horse ; let no one 
breed an old worn-out mare, or a mare with 
any constitutional unsoundness, or tendency 
to unsoundness. The produce of such stock 
will seldom be sold at a profit — to say nothing 
of the cruelty involved in breeding horses 
which are almost certain to suffer from pain- 
ful lameness before they reach middle life. 
Buyers now demand work-horses that have 
soundness and quality, and the whole tendency 
is in that direction. Beauty in the work-horse 
has now a recognized value as an advertise- 
ment. Who are the men that are making 
monev as master teamsters in our great cities? 



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They are the men who have the best horses 
and treat them the best. 

Some time ago, when I was praising the 
horses of a particular truckman to a man en- 
gaged in a different branch of the horse busi- 
ness, he replied, "Oh, that fellow; why he 
spends every cent that he makes on those fine 
blankets and the brass-mounted harness that 
he uses ; that isn't business."' Well, I took 
pains to inquire, and I found that this enthu- 
siastic, extravagant truckman had laid up 
$100,000 in twenty years! On the other hand, 
if you find a truckman with thin, gaunt, un- 
cared-for horses, you find a man who has hard 
work to keep out of bankruptcy. 

It is the custom in Boston and, I presume, 
in all cities, for master truckmen to assign 
particular wagons and horses for use by a par- 
ticular customer : that is, the wagon is reserved 
mainly, often wholly, for the customer's use, 
and both his name and that of the truckman 
appear on the wagon. These regular custom- 
ers are beginning to complain, I am glad to 
say, if the horses that haul the vi'agon with 
their name on it, do not come up to a high 
standard. "Why don't you have a fine horse 
on my wagon?" they say to the truckmen. 
'■\Miy don't you exhibit in the Parade?" "Why 
don't you paint that wagon and clean tip the 
harness ?'" 

There is another reason why quality in the 
modern work-horse is demanded. The life 
of a work-horse in the city is now a very 
strenuous one. The streets are so slippery 
especially in Winter, that he is in constant 
danger of falling ; and, when the going is bad, 
the horse gets very tired before the end of the 
day. Now we all know that a well-bred horse 
will keep on his feet better and, in case of a 
fall, will get up much quicker than a coarse- 
bred one. The coarse-bred horse, if tired, is 
often ready, and even glad, to fall, and, once 
down, he is perfectly willing to stay down ; 
whereas, the well-bred horse will leap to his 
feet, if possible. There are, of course, many 
exceptions, but this, as all horsemen know, is 
trite as a general statement. 

Then, again, the coarse-bred horse is much 
slower to recover from illness or injury — es- 
pecially when the blood is affected. For ex- 
ample, at the free hospital for horses, main- 
tained by the Boston Work-Horse Relief 
Association, there have been an aston- 
ishing number of cases of blood-poisoning, 
which originated from some cut on the foot 
or leg — sometimes from interfering. This is 
a trouble peculiar to the city, and the "vets'" 
say that, in these cases, as probably in all other 
cases of injury or illness, the well-bred horse 



makes a quicker recovery than the poorly-bred 
one. 

Quality, therefore, as well as soundness, is 
necessary in the brood-mare. Sell the mare 
with coarse hair, overhanging eyelids, meaty 
legs, ragged hips and a sloping rump, and 
breed from the fine-haired, large-eyed mare 
with clean legs, hoofs of close texture, well- 
cut sears and smooth hips. The demand for 
work-horses like this is much in excess of the 
supply. 

A carload of such horses was recently 
brought from the West to Springfield, Massa- 
chusetts, arriving on a Saturday. A truck- 
man in Boston, who heard of their arrival, 
took a train at 2 or 3 o'clock Sunday morning 
and thus got the pick of the lot — a pair for 
which he paid over a thousand dollars. The 
next train brought another Boston truckman. 

Express horses are, perhaps, even more 
scarce. Percheron mares, bred to trotting 
stallions of good bone and substance, should 
produce such horses. There is also a large 
demand for horses to draw milk wagons and 
bakers' wagons. These wagons, with their 
loads, are now so heavy that they require a 
1 400 pound horse, and he must do his work at 
a trot. It is not easy to find a horse of that 
weight who is light enough on his feet to trot 
without pounding himself to pieces. The de- 
mand for this kind of a horse is rapidly in- 
creasing. 

As for tlie carriage horse and the roadster, 
their future depends upon the securing of sep- 
arate macadamized roads for horse-drawn 
pleasure vehicles in the parks and suburbs of 
the cities. If it should thus become possible 
for a man — and still more for his wife — to 
take a drive in a carriage without the prospect 
of meeting sudden death at the hands of some 
reckless or drunken chauffeur, the carriage 
horse and the roadster would come back, I be- 
lieve to a great extent. There are hundreds 
of people who would like to take a daily drive, 
but they have been scared out of this innocent 
and wholesome amusement, and have sold or 
given away their horses. Minorities always 
have to fight for their rights, and the horse 
owners in this country have surrendered theirs 
without a struggle. 



R. G. CROSBY FOR THIRD TERM 

It is certain that Riley G. Crosby will con- 
tinue in his official office of president of the 
Dorchester Gentlemen's Driving Club in 191 5, 
he having received the unanimous nomination 
at the club's meeting, held on Dec. 7, 1914. It 
will make his third term in the executive chair. 



John Shepard Tells of Racing to Sleigh 
On the Mill Dam and Beacon Street 



JOHX SHEi'ARD. the veteran lover 
of good horses, relates the following 
of old-time racing on the Mill Dam 
;ind Beacon Street lioiilevard: 
"The gentlemen of the road would 
often give me a trotter which they considered 
a bit 'gone by,' and, as a general rule, I could 
take him and beat the very horse the big 
fellows fancied most. They said it was be- 
cause 1 made so much noise l.)fhind the horse, 
but I don't believe it. 

"Personally, I think the reason for my 
success lay solelv in my energetic driving. 

"I remember one instance, when I sold 
Dick Swiveller to Frank \\'ork for pretty 
close to $12,000. 

"We were driving duwn the Harlem road, 
and by the time we reached '(Jabe' Case's 1 
had passed everything except Work, who 
was driving Swiveller. Naturally, I didn'! 
like ti^ embarrass Mr. Work right in front 
of all the people who were out, and so T had 
to pull my horse away over to the other side 
of the road. 

"Mr. Work, of course, didn't know of this 
episode, and he was much i)Ieased with 
Swiveller's performance. 

"Then there was another incident nearer 
Iiome which I like to remember. I was tak- 
ing Thomas Plant out, in Boston, with a fine 
pair of horses. 'We went along merrily for a 
time, and I could see that my comjianion was 
turning something over in his mind. Finally, 
after a long silence, he said : 

" 'Mr. Shepard, I want to tell you some- 
thing. Some time ago I had a wonderfull\- 
fast horse which could beat everything in 
sight, and I was very anxious to get an op- 
portunity to beat you. At last, after many 
days of good sleighing, I got out on the 
Brookline road and found you, and we 
started together. 

" "The horse I was drixing would make 
frequent breaks, InU would always steady 
down again and recover without losing anv- 
thing.^ 

" 'You were trotting Reina at a gcnd clip, 
and when we got down the road a bit, right 
in front of a big crowd, my horse lir^ike, and 
you turned around and said: "Let him run, 
that gait will suit me as well as anv other," 
and we went right dnwn witlmut any acci- 
dent. 



" 'When we turned to go back, I asked 
\ou to tr)- that once more, because I didn't 
like you to beat me that way. You said no, 
that you wouldn't start in cold blood for any- 
thing, but that if I would go back to Cool- 
idge's Corner with you, you would be glad 
to trot with me. 

" 'Well, we went back, and several other 
gentleiuen with horses accnni]Kinicd us to see 




JOHN SHEPARD 

the brush and try to get in front of you, so 
that I could beat you, an event which would 
have afforded them great i)leasure. 

" 'When we got to the corner, everyone 
turned around, and the whole file of us 
started off at once. We had gone a quarter 
of a mile or so, when to our surprise we saw 
that you were not with us, and so we pulled 
up to wait for you : at this you whipped up 
and came down the road on the jump, and 
when you were near us, you yelled for us to 
go ahead. We all started off, but many o." 
the horses broke and some couldn't move 
off fast enough, and you, with skilful driving, 
got through. Then I made up my mind it 
was no use trying to beat you, and we all 
followed you down. Yes, Mr. Shepard, 
Reina was a good mare. She l^eat every- 
thing that came out on the snow.' 



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"One time Arloch Wentworth, one of the 
wealthy men in those days, came up to my 
house, as he often did, and went out to the 
stables to look over the horses. 

" 'John,' said he, pointing to Reina, "give 
me that mare : she's getting old. and you 
won't want her much longer.' 

" 'No," said I, "I might sell her to you for 
$i,oco.' 

"But Arloch wanted her as a gift, and 
held out for her. 



tried to be a Christian, but driving Sundays 
was one of my pet sins. \\'ell, we arranged, 
perfectly fairly, to have the horse turn about 
one everv second day, and I always tempted 
the devil by taking her Sundays as well. 

"The second horse I bought turned out 
better still for me. 

"There was a man living out Grove Hall 
way who owned a fine bit of horseflesh. 
This man, too, was a good Christian. He 
went to church everv Sundav, but he had no 




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The Best Trotter Owned by John Shepard, the Dean of American Reinsmen 



"After a bit I said : 'Arloch, Til give you 
Reina on one condition. As you say, she 
won't be much use to me after a time. Now, 
you like money pretty well, bitt it won't be 
of any use to you when you depart this life. 
I'll tell you what ; you make the Young 
AJen's Christian Association a present of 
$100,000 and you can have Reina.' 

"And at last he took the of?er. True, 
he didn't do it right away, but after thinking 
it over for c|uite a while he came up one day 
and told me that he had arranged the en- 
dowment, and when he died the association 
got the money. 

"The first horse I ever bought was in 
partnership with another man. I got the 
better of the deal in one way. This other 
chap was a good Christian, and couldn't be 
induced to sfo drivinsr on Sundav. I alwavs 



compunctions about going and coming be- 
hind his horse. Moreover he had no com- 
punctions either about passing me on the 
way without great difficulty. 

"He talked so much about this that I de- 
termined finally I'd get a horse that would 
beat him. I looked about, and after a bit I 
bought a nice fellow called 'Old Trot.' I 
paid S.'^co, and agreed to give $25 more if he 
turned out well. 

"Well, sir, that horse did turn out excel- 
lently well, especially on the Sabbath, I am 
pleased to say, and the man got his $25. 

'"Xot long ago, my son, who is now 57 
vears old, was telling me that as long as he 
could remember I was matching horses, and 
he wondered that I never got a pair. As a 
matter of fact, I had several good ones. I 
used to sive awav manv of mv best horses to 



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my friends after I had had the best years out 
of them, but nowadays everybody has auto- 
mobiles. A number of years ago I tried a 
new experiment. I sent two horses to the 
New York auction, e.xpecting to get $2,000 
or $3,000 for them. Instead, I got only $500 
for one and $385 for the other. But both of 
them found good homes. 

"Senator L., the one that went for $385, 
beat the best horse in New York afterward, 
and his owner wrote me that the silver cup 
he won was worth more than $1,000 to him. 

"About twenty rears ago T bought a horse 



at Hartford for $10,000. He trotted a race 
for !ue the same afternoon, and with his wm- 
nings he cost me $8,500. Next day I sold 
hiuT to William Rockefeller for William H. 
Vanderbilt at $15,000, and Mr. Vanderbilt 
was so pleased that at Saratoga afterward he 
talked to me about him for an hour. The 
horse had gone double for him with Maud S., 
breaking the world's record at that time for 
the mile in 2:15 1-2. 

"The best horse I ever owned was Ethers 
Pride. She cost me $10,000, but she soon 
won tlic $10,000 purse at Syracuse." 



Boston Blue Was First Trotter to Beat 



Three Minutes 

(By The A^eteran) 



IN the Summer of 1820 an advertise- 
ment appeared in a paper published in 
Boston in which the Boston Jockey 
Club offered to give a purse of $1,000 
to any horse which would trot a mile 
in three minutes. 

The paper containing this announcement 
came to the notice of Orrin B. Palmer, who 
lived near Waterville. Me. 

A short time previous he had secured a 
rangy, close-cropped bay gelding, who had 
a slanting or very oblique shoulder, and 
whose legs stood well under him. The horse 
stood about 15.2 hands high and weighed 
nearly T,oco pounds. Such is the description 
which Mr. Palmer gave to Hall C. Burleigh, 
of Vassalboro, who was an expert horseman 
and a breeder of prize Hereford cattle. 

The horse had been used for two seasons 
by David Nourse in towing scows and long 
boats up the Kennebec River from Augusta 
to Waterville. After Mr. Palmer had used 
the horse a little while he found he had a 
trotter with a great burst of speed for those 
days, and privately timed him on the ice 
where the footing was very smooth and 
solid. 

When the offer of the Jockey Club came 
to Mr. Palmer, he determined to go to Bos- 
ton and make a try for it. He immediately 
fixed up a gig out of an old pair of chaise 
wheels and, hitching his horse to it. started 
for Boston. 

On his way he called on his brother-in- 
law, at Exeter, N. H., and stopped over 
night. He said nothing of his business to 
Boston until morning, when he informed his 
brother-in-law what he was going for. The 



Exeter man was quick to catch the idea, and 
it was agreed that he should take a vessel 
and go to Boston with a big sum of mone>- 
to bet on the horse. 

:Mr. Palmer and the brother-in-law arrived 
in Boston in good time. The horseman 
from the Kennebec soon made a match to 
beat three minutes with the approval of the 
Jockey Club. The trial came off over the 
Lvnn turnpike, where a mile course was 
measured off. The gelding had been named 
Zuarrom, and by that name he still is known 
in the annals of'early Maine trotters. 

In this race, to please someone's fancy, the 
horse was entered as Boston Blue. The 
traditions of earlv trotting around Lynn and 
Salem are to the effect that Boston Blue 
trotted a mile in better than three minutes. 
The race was made with competent judges at 
the start and finish, with two men on runnmg 
horses accompanying the trotter to see that 
he did not indulge in breaks or try the run- 
ning game himself. A good deal of money 
was" wagered on this first great trotting race 
near Boston where time was vanquished. 

Mr. Palmer and his brother-in-law won 
more than $800, and the Jockey Club gave 
the $1,000, as they had agreed. The time 
of the mile was 2m. 57s. 

In 1853 Mr. Palmer visited Hall C. Bur- 
leigh at'his home in Vassalboro and related 
the storv as it now appears. There isnb 
doubt as to its authenticity, nor was the time 
considered fast by Mr. Palmer, who related 
that there were other horses in his vicinity, 
near Waterville, as fast or faster than the 
horse who was the first to demonstrate that a 
mile in three minutes was easy. 



Shying in Horses and the Best Way 
to Remedy Fault 



(By Trainer) 



IT is a widely held opinion that defective 
eyesight is a very common cause of shy- 
ing in horses, but as a matter of fact, 
such is by no means the case. Unques- 
tionably defective vision not infre- 
quently accounts for a horse being a shyer, 
yet it is nothing like so frequently a cause of 
shying as it is generally held to be. 

The principal and most usual cause of the 
habit of shying in horses is nervousness or 
fear, the horse shying at some object or other 
because it is afraid of it, even though it can 
plainly see it. Habitual shyers are usually 
either of a highly strung or nervous tempera- 
ment, such as is commonly met with in well- 
bred horses, or they are of a very timid dis- 
position. 

It is, of course, well known to horsemen that 
by far the largest proportion of shyers are 
mares. The habit of shying is nothing like 
so often met with in geldings as it is amongst 
mares, and entire horses are but very rarelv 
given to shying. The reason why this is so is 
obvious when it is remembered that most usu- 
ally the cause of shying is nervousness or fear. 
Mares are as a rule of more excitable or nerv- 
ous temperament, and more often of a timid 
disposition than geldings, the latter generally 
being of a more equable temperament than the 
former, though there are exceptions, of course, 
while entires are usually very high-couraged. 
Hence one does not find an entire shying on 
account of nervousness or fear, as a rule, and 
geldings do so much less frequently than 
mares. 

A great many — in fact, it may be said, most 
— young horses are more or less given to shy- 
ing when they are first put to work, owing to 
their being unfamiliar with many objects they 
see, and consequently afraid of them. When 
they are taken up to be broken in, voun 
horses, moreover, are very commonly inclined 
to be somewhat nervous at first, and' this nat- 
urally renders them very liable to shy on the 
slightest provocation; but as a rule tliey cease 
the habit of shying as soon as they be- 
come accustomed to the sights of the road. 
and lose their erstwhile greenness and nerv- 
ousness. Hence the fact that a raw and un- 
made young horse shies very easily and fre- 
quently is a matter of no importance, and no 



notice need be taken of it, seeing that it is 
only natural it should do so in view of i 
greenness, and that in all probabiHty the habit 
will pretty soon cease of its own accord whe 
once the young animal's natural nervousnes.s 
and greenness wear ofif. 

Sometimes, however, this habit of shying at 
unfamiliar or strange objects from pure nerv- 
ousness or fear — which is so general among 
young, unmade horses when they are being 
broken in — persists long after the young 
horse's education has been completed, and 
proves itself to be quite incurable, it often- 
times, indeed, gradually becoming worse in ' 
such cases. Here we have the confirmed 
shyer which nothing will cure. The habit, how- 
ever aggravating it is, is the horse's misfor- 
tune, not its fault, seeing that it is the result 
of a highly nervous temperament, or of a too 
timid disposition ; hence it should be kindly 
and patiently dealt with. 

In some fortunate case it may be possible 
to cure it by dint of careful management and 
patience before it gets too firmly rooted, but 
more generally it is impossible to eft'ect a com- 
plete cure when the shying persists after the 
horse has been thoroughly trained and become 
fully used to the road ; and mostly it is in 
these circumstances a case of "once a shyer, 
always a shyer." 

When once the habit of shying has become 
firmly established, and when it is due to nerv- 
ousness, the chances are much against the 
horse ever being broken of it. It may, per- 
haps, be improved, if the horse is in the hands 
of a careful and patient rider or driver, who 
knows how to deal with it, and takes the 
trouble to do so. At best, however, one must 
always be on the qui vive with such shyers, 
and one is never safe with them, while in 
many cases the habit is, or becomes, so bad 
that the animal afflicted with it is a wholly 
unsafe conveyance, and not fit to be in a pri- 
vate stable. 

There is no doubt about it that in a good 
many cases horses which shy on account of 
nervousness are rendered worse in this re- 
spect by improper or injudicious treatment ; 
in fact, the habit is often established in young 
horses solely in consequence of gross misman- 
agement. It is but too common a thing for 



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the rider or driver of a young horse to force 
it past an object at which it is shying by the 
infliction of punishment with whip or spur, 
and by jabbing it in the mouth. Nothing could 
be worse than to do this. After this wron;^ 
headed practice has been repeated a couple of 
times the young horse (horses have excellent 
memories, especially for disagreeable things ) 
learns to remember that it is punished on 
shying, and thus whenever it shies it expects 
punishment to follow immediately, which nat- 
urally greatly increases its fears, and causes 
it to swerve all the more badly, or to attempt 
to run away. The fear of punishment, more- 
over, renders the animal much more inclined 
to shy, as in these circumstances it does not 
shy at an object so much as at the punishment 
which it expects to follow. It does not take 
long to convert a young horse of a nervous 
temperament, and which is by nature inclined 
to shy somewhat easily, into a confirmed and 
incurable shyer by such senseless treatment. 

The proper way to manage a young horse 
when it shies is to treat it kindly and with 
patience. On no account must it be punished 
in any way for shying. Its fear or nervous- 
ness should be allayed by speaking quietly to 
the animal, by patting it on the neck, etc. — 
in brief, by cajoling it, as it were — that will 
readily calm it. If it objects to go past an 
object on account of its being afraid of it, it 
should be coaxed, in order to induce it to pass 



the same. It is quite wrong to force it to 
pass the object by means of punishment. It 
is a good plan to allow a young horse to have 
a good look at any object for which it evinces 
much fear, it being coaxed to go close to it 
and to smell at it, so that the animal may con- 
vince itself that it is harmless and that its 
fears are groundless. If this is done, the 
horse will probably take but little or no no- 
tice of the same object next time it passes or 
encounters it. It is easy enough, as a rule, 
to overcome and eradicate the propensity t. 
shy which arises from greenness and nervous- 
ness in a young, unmade horse, by power and 
patient management. 

Not infrequently horses are addicted to the 
habit of shying or swerving at certain objects 
merely as the result of light-heartedness, or 
of an excess of high spirits, due to their being 
very fresh or under-worked and full of oats. 
In such cases a horse will shy at objects with 
which it is quite familiar, and of which it 
ordinarily takes no notice whatever, and very 
often, in addition to shying or swerving, the 
animal bucks or kicks up its heels at the same 
time, when it is being ridden. This mischiev- 
ous or playful — though often very awkward 
and annoying — kind of shying, which is 
caused by an exuberance of spirits, is prac- 
ticed only while the horse remains fresh, and 
ceases as soon as the animal settles down to 
its work and has expended its superfluous 
enerofx'. 



Amateur Racing Creates Big Demand 
for Our Outclassed Trotters 



FURE^lOST in the promotion of 
amateur racing in this country is 
Harry K. Devereux, of Cleveland. 
He is therefore a very capable man 
to cpiote when expressing his views 
of the value of the amateurs to trotting in- 
terests. Just where the amateur and the 
speedway stand today in the sporting world 
was vividly stated by Mr. Devereux in the 
Horse Breeder, as follows : 

"Perhaps the most serious thing that con- 
fronts our breeding interests is the lack of 
demand for the outclassed racer and the 
animal not desired or fitted for breeding pur- 
poses. This condition, born of the grow 
in the use of the automobile, has become 
apparent to all. The difference in the value 
of such horses and those desired for racing 
or breeding has become so great that the 



breeder must become discouraged, for com- 
paratively few of his produce can hope for a 
remunerative market. And what will the 
result be? 

'Tt does not seem prolxible that we will 
ever go Ijack to driving on the road, which 
gave a good market for the cheaper horse. 
Then, will we have enough trotters bred to 
support our tracks, or will some other use 
for the cheaper horse appear that will again 
encourage the large extension of breeding in- 
tere-^ts? 

"If such a thing comes to pass, I cannot 
imagine what it may be, unless it were the 
larger development of matinee clubs and 
speedways. From them alone now comes 
the demand for our outclassed trotters, or 
those not fitted for breeding, and, while 
there are a large number of such clubs and 



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speedways in the country, their demands for 
material covers only a very small part of the 
material at hand. It then certainly behooves 
every breeder, horseman or horse lover to 
encourage, in every way possible, the growth 
and extension of this manner of sport. 

"It is a sport of comparatively recent 
development, and, at the outset, met with but 
little encouragement from our horse in- 
terests, and many rebuffs. It would seem 
that it might be susceptible of development 
if pushed a little, for it has thrived and grown 
with little of that. It's a strange man that 
does not love a horse, and the majority oi 
men, who have the price, would love the 
ownership of one or more, could they find 
use for them. 

"One of our horse papers, in 1912, criti- 
cised the management of the Lexington 
(Ky.) meeting, because they saw fit, as ex- 
pressed, 'To cater to the amateurs,' and, fur- 
ther, they had the nerve to say that it was 
this method which killed the Memphis 
Trotting Association. The fact is that one 
of these amateurs they saw fit to fire at 
built the Memphis track and paid each year 
a large loss there in endeavoring to make a 
trotting meeting popular in that hotbed of 
running horse people. He probably spent 
more in this venture and generous act to en- 
courage the trotting game than was ever 
spent by one man before. 

"It is easy to recall the unpleasant and un- 
kind things said of the amateur and his 
actions by some of our turf papers a few 
years ago, when matinee racing, as it is 
called, was first inaugurated. The formation 
of the League of Amateur Driving Clubs 
was severely criticised, its members were 
held up to ridicule and matinee racing 
laughed at, while the horsemen themselves 
waxed hot and wrathful when any associa- 
tion permitted a wagon or amateur race to 
be held during its meeting. 

"To me, it always seemed that antagonism 
to this sport (amateur racing) was a blow 
always at the goose that lays the golden 
egg. Who puts up the money to build 
tracks, to train horses, to campaign them, to 
buv horses and to drive? Who, but the 
amateur! And, if you can add to his number 
by encouraging him to drive, does that not 
help all around? 

"Fourteen years ago the Gentlemen's 
Driving- Club of Boston, in order to stimulate 
the interest in amateur driving, offered a 
valuable trophy, with open competition, the 
only stipulation being that the contestants 
must be trotters, driven to wagon by ama- 
teurs. Competition for this cup caused much 



interest, and it is conservative to say that 
over $100,000 was spent by the amateurs foi 
horses to race for it. 

"Previous to this the amateur clubs had 
been conducting their matinees, at which no 
gate admission was charged, and while 
efforts had been made to get the National 
Trotting Association to recognize them and 
distinguish the difference between profes- 
sional and amateur, and between technical 
records and amateur records, it was 
with no success, but, instead, there was an 
understanding that these matinees were not 
regular meetings and no records could 
attach to the horses winning the cups and 
ribbons. 

"At the first contest for the Boston Cup, 
the winner trotted one heat in 2:10, which 
was faster than the then existing wagon 
record. 

"I immediately began a discussion as to 
whether this horse had not acquired a tech- 
nical record in winning this cup for the club 
he represented. The argument waxed warm, 
and the majority of the turf papers took the 
side that the horse should be penalized with 
a record. So hot grew the debate, that it 
became personal. The amateurs were 
accused of being undesirable members, of 
playing the game unfairly and, altogether, 
tb.ey were roundly flailed. Some of the 
articles written on this subject would make 
funnv reading now. 

"The outcome of this controversy was .t 
decision on the part of the National Trotting 
Association to the effect that the horse had 
acquired a record for winning a race, by 
their rules, at what was not a public meeting 
and for winning nothing. This was a bomb 
in the amateurs' camp, as it put all previous 
winners in races of this kind in a position tO' 
he protested, and was a serious blow to fur- 
ther racing of this character. 

"A fight then began between the amateurs 
and the National Trotting Association,, 
which, after much feeling on both sides, re- 
sulted in the National and American Associa- 
tions both enacting legislation favorable ta 
the amateur. Since then he has thrived, and 
there is a matinee club in most all towns that 
have a track. 

"Calm deliberation will prove the benefit 
this has been to our trotting horse interests, 
and to encourage and foster their further 
growth will help, in a large measure, to solve 
the problem put up to our breeders and 
horsemen through the remarkable achieve- 
ments of the pushing and ever zealous, 
though not always truthful, automobile 
manufacturer and salesman." 



Pete Supposed to Have a Cinch but 
Buck Dickerson Won the Race 



(By J. B.) 



THE late John tlood, who had a wide 
circle of close friends throughout 
New England, was one of the first 
members of the Dorchester Driv- 
ing Club. Long before the days 
of this club, however, Mr. Hood owned the 
boss of the snowpath on River Street, the 
speeding ground for residents of Hyde Park, 
Milton, Dorchester, Quincy, Atlantic, etc., in 
the trotting gelding Bob. While without a 
known record, yet Bob held all comers for sev- 
eral Winters. Trotters with marks right at 
2 :20, and it was the day of the high wheel, 
were brought to the snow course to take the 
measure of Bob, but the efforts always proved 
fruitless. 

Likely the most satisfaction Mr. Hood ever 
had was with the pacing gelding Buck Dick- 
erson, 2 :25 1-2, a Grand Circuit star in the 
eighties. He purchased him in the fall of 
1889. That season on the snow, for some rea- 
son. Buck was a huge failure, not being able 
to make even a presentable display of speed. 

The following Spring so much talk was 
made about Mr. Hood being gulled in buying 
the pacer that finally it led to a match over the 
Readville track, then a twice-around, known 
as Norfolk Trotting Park, with a trotting 
gelding named Pete, but afterward found out 
to be Peter, 2 :28. A Dr. Stuart dug up this 
Pete, or Peter, and, letting a few in on the 
secret, made the match with Mr. Hood for 
$400 a side, play or pay. 

So great was the interest that on the day of 
the race, September 2, a crowd of 2,000 paid 
admission at the gate. Henry Nay, then lessee 
of Readville, had leased the track for the oc- 
casion, receiving $50, and the agreement was 
that the track receipts went to the victor. Mr. 
Nay, finding out who Pete was, wagered what 
he received for the track on that gelding to 
win. James \\'ilde, of Quincy, was starting 
judge. Just before the first heat a pool of 
$400 more was raised to back Peter and flung 
at Mr. Hood. He was game, and came back, 
and the $800 was placed in Mr. Wilde's hands. 
Outside of this Mr. Hood had wagered $600 
against some $750 a few days previous to the 
race that was posted in divers hands. 

James O'Donnell. still a trainer at the Read- 



ville track, had the mount back of Peter, while 
iidward Cogswell came over from Mystic to 
drive Buck Dickerson for Mr. Hood. Read- 
ville track was very slow, being deep in sand, 
causing the narrow steel-tired wheels of the 
high-wheel sulky to sink in a couple of inches. 
At the word Peter, at the pole, went away at 
an awful clip under the adverse conditions, 
getting to the quarter in 34 seconds. Around 
the lower turn Buck began to close the gap, 
and at the half, in i :io, was just on even 
terms. Here Peter called enough, making so 
bad a break that when Buck Dickerson jogged 
under the wire in 2 129 1-2, Peter was some 200 
yards in the rear. 

The distance judge, having wagered $25 on 
Peter, refused to drop the flag. After a wran- 
gle of half an hour the judges decided to let 
him start again, but that one heat had taken 
all that was in the gelding. Buck Dickerson 
winning handily the second heat in the slow 
time of 2 133. Dr. Stuart drove Peter the third 
heat, but was beaten away off in 2 -.^y. 

Mr. Hood never tired of relating about this 
race and how he was expected to be on the 
other side of the killing. It was well mapped 
out, but Dr. Stuart and his friends failed to 
consider what they were up against in the 
Dickerson pacer. Later Buck Dickerson was 
sold to A. J. Legg, of Dover, N. H., who 
thought so much of the gelding that, at his 
death, he left in his will he ne\-er be sold out 
of the faniilv. 



WAR COST $305,000 HORSE DEAL 

\\'. E. D. Stokes, the New York and Ken- 
tucky horseman, lost a $305,000 trotting horse 
deal by the war of 1914. George Speaks was 
captured in London as a spy and retained at 
Scotland Yard. He previously came to Amer- 
ica, acting for the Austrian and Russian Gov- 
ernments, and secured a contract for forty 
services of Peter the Great, fifty of Peter 
Donna and fifty of Peter Volo for $80,000. 
^ Austrian and Russian Governments had op- 
tion for purchase of Peter the Great, 2:07 1-4; 
Peter Donna. 2:08 1-4; and Peter Volo, a 
three-year-old, with a record of 2:03 1-2, of 
$225,000, making a total of $305,000. War 
prevented carrying out the contract. 



Robert Bonner Made It Popular for 
Gentlemen to Own a Trotter 



T 



(J no man arc the amateur 
tlrivers of America so much in- 
delned as to that grand gentle- 
man and ])rince of amateur 
sportsmen, the late Robert Bon- 
ner. It was he who made road driving the 
one all-absorbing sport and popular pastime 
away back in the forties, and it was his acts 
which took that distinctly American product, 
the trotter, out of the hands of gamblers and 
elevated him to such distinction as made him 




ROBERT BONNER 

sought after ])y men of refinement and 
wealth. 

Robert Bonner paid what were, in the 
earlier days, fabulous prices for trotters, and 
retired them from the track to comfortable 
quarters and his own private use. The first 
team to trot a mile faster than 2:30, was 
owned and driven by Mr. Bonner. In i86r 
he hitched Flatbush Maid and Lady Palmer 
together, and drove them a mile over Union 
Course, Long Island, in 2 .2~. 

At that time the feat was of such extra- 
ordinary character as to attract wide atten- 
tion, and its credibility was questioned by 
gentlemen of such character that a doubt 
was expressed quite frequently as to the 
authenticitv of the record. 



]Mr. Bonner was a gentleman who kept 
liis own counsel, but later events proved that 
he was not only annoyed by these reports, 
but decided to prove to the world conclit- 
sively that the time was not only correct, but 
that the team was capable of repeating the 
performance. 

On May 10, 1862, Mr. Bonner arranged 
with the management of the club at Fashion 
Course, I-ong Island, to start the team 
against their record of 2 -.z"/, and on that day, 
in the presence of a large crowd of repre- 
sentative gentlemen, including a great many 
of those who had doubted the previous per- 
formance, j\Ir. Bonner drove Flatbush Maid 
and Ladv Palmer a cleverlv rated mile in 
2 :26. 

It is needless to say that when this mile 
was finished and the time was announced, 
the a])plause which followed clearly demon- 
strated that all doubt regarding the ability 
of this then sensational team was removed. 
Three days later, on May 13, Mr. Bonner 
drove the same team two miles in 5:01 1-4, 
the first mile being in 2:26 1-2. 

Until the advent of the pneumatic sulky, 
after which world records followed each 
other in such rapid succession, Mr. Ronner 
became the owner of almost every champion 
trotter. He paid $35,000 for Dexter, 
2:17 i-|; $40,000 for ]\Iaud S.. 2:08 ,3-4; 
$41,000 for Sunol, 2:08 1-4; $20,000 for 
Edward Everett, and gave $36,000 and 
another mare for Pocahontas, 2 :26 3-4. 
Pocahontas was a remarkable mare, having 
shown her ability in 1878 to trot close to 
2 :20, to wagon, and in 1880 Mr. "Allie" 
Bonner, a son of Robert, drove the mare a 
full mile in 2 :i7 1-2. 

All of the animals mentioned as having 
been owned by Mr. Bonner are now dea'' 
Dexter and Maud S. lie side by side at East 
\'iew Farm, and a monument bearing an 
appropriate inscription has been erected 10 
their memory. 

The efforts of ^Ir. Bonner resulted in 
bringing into active participation in ro;id 
driving, that famous gene"al a;id President 
of the United States, U. S. Grant: Wm. H. 
\'anderbilt, Frank Work, Shepard Knapp, D. 
S. Hammond and many other gentlemen of 
that character, who became known through- 
out the world as members of the "Sealskin 
Driving Brigade" of New York. 



Radical Changes in Care of Race 
Horses in Past Ten Years 



H( iRSKS nowadays race in much 
higher flesh than they did years 
ago, due largely to the fact that 
they are not sweated with heavy 
clothes," writes an old-time 
horseman. "The old idea seemed to be that 
horses must be 'drawn tine" in order to race in 
their best form, and in the process of 'draw- 
ing" them the muzzle played a star part. On 
race days horses were ahvays muzzled and 
many trainers also used these feed preventers 
on their steeds half the time. We now allow 
the horses to eat practically all the hay they 
care for, but I can remember when it was 
rationed ofif carefully — sometimes weighed. 
Hoods are very rarely used now, but formerly 
they were about the most important article in 
a racer"s kit. I have seen caretakers get a 
hard call-down when they peeled the hood 
back enougli to use the scraper on a horse's 
neck, it being the custom to scrape imder the 
hood. 

"It was not an unusual thing to get instruc- 
tions to jog the horse you w'ere caring for five 
or six miles after a hard race in the 'good old 
days." I suppose this was done in order to 
cool the steed out gradually. It was a shame 
to see horses piled with blankets and the sweat 
running oft them in streams, when we were 
cooling them out after a race. They would 
pant and show every sign of distress, but il 
was 'the w^ay to do things' at that time, and 
of course no one figured that it was a bad one 
for the horses. 

"Soaking tubs have largely followed sweat 
blankets into the scrap heap, but it took years 
to discover that their use was injurious to the 
feet. Constant soaking, often in very warm 
water, softened the horn of the feet, and, if a 
horse had corns or thrush, the water aggra- 
vated instead of helped the troubles, ^^'e used 
to poultice feet with turnips and bran, and 
while this treatment may have had some vir- 
tue, clay, as used nowadays, is probably of 
more benefit. Always after a hard race a 
horse's shoes were removed, and when reset 
the nails were put back in the old holes. 

"The gait of trotters has changed radically 
during the past thirty years, and, for that mat- 
ter, is constantly improving as the horses be- 
come better bred. All the old trotters used to 
break, in fact, their trainers taught them to be 



shifty and easily caught after a tumble. There 
were very few pure gaited ones, too, most of 
them having a hitch in their motion, resulting, 
no doubt, from the fact that they were more 
inclined to scalp and speedy-cut than the mod- 
ern type. We didn't know wdiat square toes 
were, and that method of balancing alone 
would have been a big help to our faulty 
gaited ones, had we known of it. 

"Monroe Salisbury was the first trainer I 
saw who appreciated the fact that excessive 
jogging dulled a horse's speed; two or three 
miles was as much as he permitted his horses 
to be jogged, and he always ordered the boys 
to step them along and not keep them out jog- 
ging at a snail's pace. 

"Another great feature of change is the fact 
that drivers do not take hold of their horses 
as they did in the long ago. Light hands came 
into vogue with such trainers as Mace, the 
Goldsmiths, and Splan. We used to see big, 
powerful drivers leaning back, the lines wrap- 
ped around their wrists, pulling with all their 
might. Of course there were exceptions, but 
nearly all the old-time teamsters were very 
strong in their arms. If our finely balanced 
trotters of the present were driven in the old 
'strong arm' fashion, many of them would be 
pronounced quitters ; also they would soon go 
bad gaited as a result of being doubled up. 

"As I stated in the beginning of this story, 
vast imjH-ovement has been made in all de- 
partments of horse training and care, but 
there is one feature that, in my opinion, has 
not been improved upon. This is the care of 
the racers' legs. The boys nowadays sop some 
strong wash on the legs of their horses and, 
after hitting them a few licks with their 
hands, wrap a fold of cotton around them, 
slap on a bandage, and let it go at that. I 
still follow the old plan of hand-rubl)ing the 
legs several times during the day, also at night 
and early in the morning. To massage legs 
properly they must be kept damp with a 
sponge and the rubbing must be done gently. 

"It is not well to rub too hard or take hold 
of the tendons too tightly. If you rub the leg 
till it is perfectly dry and then keep up your 
treatment, it will heat, thus causing fever. Be 
sure to keep it wet and don't be afraid that 
you will do too much hard work in this line — ■ 



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there is no danger of the average boy over- 
exerting himself, however. 

'"At present strong, irritating liniments are 
used on legs, and I regard the method as very 
harmful. Also, I think bandages are made 
too much use of, especially those underlaid 
with cotton. When you see the hair ridged and 
crimped like a fluting iron, you can put it 
down that the blood has congested in the skin, 
and that is certainly bad. Years ago the only 
wash we used was home made. I always use 
a combination of Medford rum and witch 
hazel when I can get it, diluting it so as to 
make it about one-quarter strength." 



RIG, 



PACER, IN OUTLANDISH 
WINNER OF RACE 

A follower of the race track is apt to see 
many funny happenings, but the limit was at 
the opening of the St. Albans. Vt., track. 

This occurred in August, 1897, and, as the 
management of the newly constructed half- 
mile course had well advertised the first meet- 
ing, the attendance ran into thousands each 
day, packing the grandstand to the top. 

On the second day of the meeting the initial 
race on the card was for pacers eligible to the 
2 :29 class, in which nine horses were entered 
to take the word. 

For an hour previous to the calling of the 
horses the early and rapidly increasing crowd 
had been having plenty of sport with a French- 
Canadian, who was contentedly jogging around 
and around the course a fat-looking mare in 
about the oddest appearing rig ever seen at 
the races. 

The harness had evidently been in use many 
a year, and was gray from the lack of clean- 
ing, while both of the blinkers and the saddle 
were in strips from constant wear. The water- 
hook, too, was gone, and the check rein was 
held in place by a roll of white twine. The 
harness was a thing of beauty compared to 
the sulky. It was a home-made affair and 
never painted. The shafts were straight from 
the axle, on top of which was a soap box for 
the seat, so arranged that the lettering showed 
from the rear. A set of bicycle wheels were 
held in position by two pieces of scantlings, 
sawed off at the proper length. 

The Canadian wore an old slouch hat, over- 
alls and jumper. The overalls were tucked 
in a pair of long top boots. 

The crowd devoted the spare time before the 
calling of the races in hooting and jeering the 
outfit. Cries of "Start her up, Pierre!" "Show 
us some speed!" "What will you take for the 
whole show?" etc., were railed at the Cana- 
dian from all parts of the grandstand. 

The judges, too, enjoyed the sport till the 



horses came on the track for the tirst heat ol 
the afternoon, and then they yelled to the man 
to get off' the track with his mare, but it was 
soon evident that the English language was a 
mystery to him, and there was nobody around 
that could talk French. Finally the marshal 
of the track rode up to the mare on horseback 
and led the mare off the track by the bridle. 

Xo sooner had he been put oft' the track than 
around the grandstand he jogged the mare and 
re-entered the track at the other entrance. As 
can be imagined, the entire crowd was now in 
an uproar at the proceeding. The marshal in 
no gentle manner run liis saddle horse around 
the track, and grabbing the mare once more 
by the bridle led her off' the course in quick 
order. 

The 2 :29 class pacers had scored several 
times when another crazy acting Frenchman 
rushed into the judges' stand. This one could 
talk broken English. Then the judges told the 
drivers in the stretch to blanket their horses. 

In a few minutes, to the amazement of all,, 
who should appear on the track but the orig- 
inal Frenchman and his mare. It seems that 
he had been entered in the race all of the time, 
and the name of his mare was Paucette. while 
his own was A. Tetreault, from some place 
near to Montreal. 

But the crowd had still another surprise 
coming, as after losing a couple of heats Pau- 
cette took the third, and when the Frenchmarr 
returned to the wire the cheering could be 
heard for miles, judging by the volume of 
sound that belched forth from the grandstand. 

A heavy shower then descended and the 
racing was postponed until the next day, when 
the French mare won the two heats necessary 
to head the summary. In some quarters it 
was thought the makeup was on account of the 
mare being a ringer, which caused an investi- 
gation, but it resulted in finding that every- 
thing was straight. 



TROTTER, THE ABBOTT, 2 :03 1-4 

CARVED ON SCANNELL 

MONUMENT 

In Calvary Cemetery, New York, was 
erected in 1914 a tall, striking monument to- 
the memory of Florence Scannell — the hand- 
some, daring, young Tammany "Florrie" of 
almost half a century ago. who was shot to- 
death in a political row in December. 1869. 

His brother, John J. Scannell, long-time fire 
commissioner of New York, boyhood friend 
of Richard Croker, and still a Tammany sa- 
chem despite his years, placed the tribute in 
Calvary. John was present when "Florrie"' 
was murdered. John, some three years later, 
shot to death the man who was supposed to 
be his brother's slayer — Thomas Donohue. 



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The avenger was tried twice for murder. 
The first time the jury disagreed; the second 
time he was acquitted on the ground of in- 
sanity, but was released after a brief stay in 
an asylum, from which he emerged to gather 
political honors and wealth. 

It is entirely of granite, this monument. 
Atop is a life-sized figure of Florence Scan- 
nell as he was whefi he was shot down, in his 
twenties — a tall, smooth-faced young man in 
a frock coat, without a hat, holding open with 
one hand the pages of a 'book, presumably a 
prayer book. 

C3n one face of the six-foot square base is 
his name, with the dates of h^s birth and 
death. On another face is a blani" space left 
open for the record of John J. Scannell. 

On the other two sides are curious carvings. 
One shows John J. Scannell at home with his 
family. He is sitting at a table with his wife, 
his mother and his j'oung children, reading 
from a book to them. This is supposed to be 
a typical Scannell home scene. 

The remaining face of the base shows a 
famous trotting horse — The Abbott — which 
John J. Scannell once owned and which was 
the dearest possession of his life, rivaled only 
by his famous house in Saratoga when that 
resort was in its heyday, which was known as 
the Chateau Ophelia. 

On the monument the horse is shown in a 
meadow, with a barn in the distance and a run- 
ning brook in the foreground. It is an ex- 
tremely unusual decoration for a tombstone, 
but so great was John J. Scannell's affection 
for his trotter that he insisted The Abbott's 
portrait in stone should be along with his own 
(vet to come) and his brother's. 



HE MADE TWO MEN SPEAK 

( )ne of the Ijest known characters in 
former years of the Eastern tracks was a 
cliocolate colored individual known to all as 
■'Senator" Bennett. He hailed from the 
State of Virginia, hut at one time and an- 
othei; has visited all of the prominent track-^ 
in the country. One evening he dropped 
into a popular turf resort in Boston, and was 
telling what hard luck he had had that year 
with the ponies. "Why,"' declared he, "it 
almost equals the season that I took out a 
negro friend of mine and we never turned a 
winninp- trick." Several at once asked for 
tl^e truth of the occurrence. 

"\\'el!." said the "Senator," "I'll tell you 
low it happened. This friend of mine came 
into a fortune of $Too,oco through the deatl' 
of his father. He was deaf and dumb, yet I 
had been with him so much that I could 
work the finger language like an old veteran. 
So I fingered out to him that the wav to 



double his money was to go with me ami 
play the races. He agreed. We had one 
continual streak of hard luck from the start. 
Finally, I heard of a good thing that was 
Looked to come ofif at a track some 500 miles 
away, and we went to get some of the coin. 
I got him to draw $20,000 from the bank. 
We played it all on the race and lost. That 
night we had a room with two beds in it, 
and what was my amazement along in the 
night to be aroused by my friend shaking 
me, and as I sat up he said: 'This is too darn 
tough for me; I'm going to quit both you 
and the horses.' I had made him speak !" 

All present let a roar of laughter out as 
the '"Senator" finished, and the proprietor of 
the place was so amused that he turned to- 
the group and said : "Boys, I'll buy on that 
story." 

"There," quickly remarked the "Senator," 
"now I've made another man speak, too." 



FRANK HOWE KIDS ENGLISH- 
MAN 

Murray Howe, at one time secretary of 
the Memphis race track, had a brother 
Frank, who was noted as a practical joker. 
.Murray tells a story about his playful 
brother. Seated with a group of horsemen 
was an Englishman named Lake. He was 
a person of wealth and had been entertaining 
the party with accounts of his hunting trips 
in the Indian jungles, shooting tigers, etc. 
Frank stood it for some time, and then 
broke in. addressing his conversation to the 
hero of the tiger episodes, as follows : 

''Your experiences in the jungles have in- 
terested me greatly, and I hope that before 
you return home you will find it possible 
to accompany me on what I'm sure you will 
find the most novel hunt of your life. I'll 
take you to the Indian Territory and give 
you an opportunity to shoot a few of our 
American Indians. The sport is extremely 
thrilling. You will never forget it to your 
dying day. Just now is the close season and 
the Indian agents keep a sharp eye out 
that no one shoots more than two in a sin- 
gle month. October is the open month 
when one can shoot as many as he can find 
Though it was the close season last month, I 
shot three — one more than the law allows. I 
had to sneak the extra one out. Last Oc- 
tober I got thirteen of them before dinner in 
one day." 

The Englishman said that he had read a 
lot about the Indians and the agents. Ar- 
rangements were then and there made be- 
tween the two for an Indian hunt the next 
October. 



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PRIZE WINNERS OF DORCHES- 
TER CLUB IN SEASON 
OF 1914 

There was a large list of prizes offered by 
members and friends of the Dorchester Gen- 
tlemen's Driving Club for the horses racing 
at the Franklin Field Speedway in the season 
of 1014, which inclined to keep competition 
at a high pitch up to the last matinee, held 
on Thanksgiving- Day. A review of the list 
shows that every prize was well worth the 
trouble in winning. 

Following is the complete list of winners 
which is placed in this section of the book 
on account of the Dorchester Club racing 
so late it was impossible to give the winners 
in the regular space allotted to the cltib's 
history : 

Trotters 
Silver cup, value $30, for fastest average time in 
six winning races — R. G. Crosbj-'s Jack Bingen, 
average 1 :04 1-4. 
Silver cup, value $30, for winning greatest number 

of heats in I :o8 or better — M. McDermott's Mary 

Mc, 17 heats. 
Silver cup, value $25, for winning fastest heat in 

winning race — Hollis Gallup's Silence, i :04 3-4. 
First point prize, road cart, value $65 — Won by 

George M., with 96 points. 
Second point prize, harness, value $30 — Won by 

Jack Bingen with 84 points. 
Third point prize, suit of horse clothing, vahie $15 

— Won by .\my's Baby with 83 points. 
Fourth point prize, silver cup, value $10 — Won by 

Dot with 72 points. 
Fifth point prize, silver cup, value $10 — Won by 

May McKinney with 65 points. 
Sixth point prize, blankets, value $10 — Won by 

Mary Mc, with 64 points. 
Seventh point prize, cup, value $8 — Won by Peter 

Red Bell with 61 points. 
Eighth point prize, chest of horse medicine — Won 

by Lister W., with 46 points. 
Ninth point prize, cooler, value $5 — Won by Quo 

Vadis with 40 points. 
Tenth point prize, cooler, value $5 — Won by Gal- 
lup's Todd with 37 points. 
Eleventh point prize, breezer, value $5 — Won by 

Green Mountain Boy with 34 points. 
Twelfth point prize, whip, value $5 — Won by Billy 

Bingen with 32 points. 
Thirteenth point prize, cooler, value $5 — Won by 

Silence with 31 points. 
Fourteenth point prize, breezer, value $3 — Won by 

Baron Patch with 31 points. 

Pacers 
Silver cup, value $30. for fastest average time in six 

winning races — W. H. Young's Sister Patch, aver. 

I :02. 
Silver cup, value $30, for winning fastest average 

time in six winning races, without the hopples — 

C. M. Warren's Color Bearer, aver, i :o6 1-4. 
.Silver cup. value $25. for winning most heats in 

I :o7 or better — A. T. Wheelock's Charley King, 

II heats. 

First point prize, road cart, value $65 — Won by 

Sister Patch with 80 points. 
Second point prize, silver cup. value $23 — Won by 

Sunshine with 73 points. 



Third point prize, blanket, value $15 — Won by 

Mark's Bell, Jr., with 51 points. 
Fourth point prize, silver cup, value $10 — Won by 

Hattie B., with 46 points. 
Fifth point prize, blankets, value $10 — Won by 

Color Bearer with 41 points. 
Sixth point prize, blanket, value $10 — Won by Mona 

Maid with 35 points. 
Seventh point prize, silver cup, value $8 — Won by 

Charley King with 34 points. 
Eighth point prize, chest of horse medicine — Won 

by Harry Direct with 31 points. 
Ninth point prize, cooler, value $5 — Won by Jenny 

F., with 30 points. 
Tenth point prize, cooler, value $5 — Won by Knox 

Gelatine Baby with 26 points. 
Eleventh point prize, cooler, value .$5 — Won by 

C. E. R., with 26 points. 
Twelfth poi'-it prize, breezer, value $5 — Won by 

Shamrock with 21 points. 
Thirteenth point prize, whip, value $5 — Won by Dob- 
son with 20 points. 
Fourteenth point prize, whip, value $5 — Won by 

Windsor B., with 19 points. 

Colt Prizes 

First, C. M. Warren's Alpine Echo; second, J. W. 

Burns' Ralph Bingen ; third. D. M. Biggs' Annie M. 



FIRST HORSE SHOW WAS HELD 
IN SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 

IN 1853 

The first horse show of national impor- 
tance in North America was held in Spring- 
field, Mass., October 10 to 13, in the year 
1853. The affairs of this pioneer equine ex- 
position were in the hands of George ^NI 
Atwater, and with the profits of this initial 
show and the successful ones which followeil 
was built Hampden Park, for many years one 
of the po])ular mile racing tracks of New Eng- 
land. 

At the first horse show, in 1853, the great 
shov/man, P. T. Rarnum, judged the ponies 
in the infield of the temporary fair ground, 
w'hile Budd Doble drove in races on the 
track. The site of these festivities, which 
marked an era in the career of the American 
horse, was a vacant lot in Springfield, owned 
by the United States Government, now cov- 
ered by the United States armory buildings. 
A temporary grandstand, stalls and other 
buildings were erected for the first horse 
show and a half-mile track laid out for the 
occasion. 

Such men of national reputation as Riifu 
Choate, Edward Everett and Oliver Wendell 
Holmes were numbered among the guests of 
the association on its opening show, and 
later, in 1857. when Ham]jden Park was 
inaugurated, the address of the day was 
made bv Rev. Henrv Ward Beecher. 



A bad horse eats as much as a good one. 
— Myster. 



Biographies and Portraits of 

Driving Club Members and 

Prominent Horsemen 

of New England 



The Hillanddale Farm 




RESIDENCE— Front RESIDENCE— Side 

FRANK L. WHITCOMB, The Proprietor 
RESIDENCE— Rear Grand View from Residence 



The Hillanddale Farm (Cont.) 




Hay Barn and Carriage House 

Garage and the "Den" 
Blacksmith and Carpenter Shop 



Side View of Stables 
Farm House 
The Hennery 



Biographies 



FRANK L. WHITCOMB 

Frank L. Whitcumb was born in Alontsello, 
Minn., in 1858. Soon after his birth his par- 
ents returned to their former home' in the 
state of Maine. In 1874 he came to Boston 
and entered the employ of Benj. D. Whit- 
comb, 29 Wareham Street, as apprentice in the 
building and contracting business. In 1883 he 
started in business for himself at 13 Broad- 
way, Cambridge, afterwards removing to 19 
Wareham Street, Boston, where he is at pres- 
ent located. Mr. Whitcomb is one of the large 
firms of Boston in the building and contracting 
business, having among his patrons wealthy 
residents of Brookline, Newport, Bar Harbor, 
Lenox, etc. He is a member of the Metropol- 
itan Driving Club, the Gentlemen's Driving 
Club of Boston, and the Quannapowitt Driv- 
ing Club. He also belongs to the B. A. A. and 
the Odd Fellows. 

While ]Mr. Whitcomb has a very select stud 
of trotters, yet in the years 1913 and 1914 he 
devoted the most of his spare time in the re- 
construction of his stock farm, situated in the 
towns of Concord and North Sudbury, only 
twenty miles from the State House. Beacon 
Hill, Boston. 

Mr. ^^'hitcomb named his farm Hillanddale 
which aptly describes the surrounding countrv. 
The residence is beautifully situated, it being 
a quarter of a mile from the public road and 
reached by a broad and winding drivewav 
that is lined by a neatly-trimmed hedge. The 
residence has an elevation of four hundred 
feet, thus permitting of a magnificent view of 
miles away, and in all directions. The resi- 
dence, too, has every convenience of a city 
home, in having running water, electric lights 
and heated by steam, etc. 

In the farm are two hundred acres and, not 
least to be thought of. is a beautiful pond cov- 
ering eighty acres, that nestles between the 
hills and is entirely fed by springs, the water 
passing analysis as being perfect. From this 
pond comes the water used in the residence 
and barns. 

The land is very fertile, growing the best 
of hay for the equine occupants of the stables, 
while the pasttires are perfect for browsing 
during the Smnmer months. All of the farm 
buildings are in perfect condition, everything 
being span and clean. In most instances the 
buildings were built by Mr. W'hitcomb in the 
past two years, and, in cases where the former 
farm buildings were used, they have been re- 
modeled to such an extent as to be practically 
r.ew. .About tlie residence and barns are several 



drix'es. with the lawns and the landscape ar- 
ranged to equal any surrounding the suburban 
homes of Bro(jkline or of Wellesley Hills. 
The expense in transforming the estate to its 
present beauty must have been enormous. To 
enjoy every comfort with his many friends, 
Air. Whitcomb constructed in the building with 
the garage and the carriage and harness rooms, 
a den for himself and guests, in which is fitted 
a billiard and pool table. In this retreat are 
spent many enjoyable evenings during Mr. 
\Vhitcomb"s Simimer at the farm. 

Mr. Whitcomb, from a mere lad, was pas- 
sionately fond of horses. When twelve years 
of age he broke to harness the afterwards fa- 
mous trotting gelding. Hopeful. 2:143-4, and 
so well did he educate the gelding that, when 
his uncle B. D. Whitcomb, took him to Bos- 
ton to use as a driving horse, he found him as 
steady and reliable as thotigh always used to 
city sights. A number of years ago Mr. Whit- 
comb began breeding a few mares he brought 
from the farm of his uncle in Stratham. N. H., 
where \\'oodbrino. 2:25 1-2, stood and perpet- 
uated a family of trotters. The result was a 
number of foals that matured into very fast 
trotters. These were developed by Ralph Har- 
rison, head trainer for Air. Whitcomb at Hill- 
anddale Farm, but at that time located in 
Reading, Alass. 

At the head of these trotters is the royally 
bred stallion, Neno Bingen, 2:22 1-4, by Bin- 
gen, 2 :o6 1-4, out of Jane, trial 2 :20, by Har- 
binger. Another fast performer is Aliss El- 
eanor, 2 :29 1-2, and with speed to race in 2:12, 
by Bingen, out of the dam of Neno Bin- 
gen. Then, there is Miss Todd, by Todd, 
2:143-4. out of Su Su, the great brood mare. 
With little training Miss Todd worked in 
2:13 1-2; Evelyn, by Todd, another of Jane's 
colts, is capable of getting a low record when 
given the racing test. Sister Todd, by Todd, 
out of Zu Zu, is one with better than 2 :20 
s]3eed and all ready to be campaigned. Lady 
Whitcomb was a very nervous filly, but, since 
having been bred, has become much better 
mannered. She has a tremendous tiu-n of 
si)eed. Mildred ^^"hitcomb, by Cochato, 
2:11 1-2, dam Alta Bird, is coimted by ex- 
cellent judges as destined for a brilliant ca- 
reer on the turf. Edwin C, by Cochato, out 
of Zu Zu, is also a smooth going trotter. 

At the opening of the half-mile track at 
Charles River Speedway, in April, 1912, Mr. 
\\'hitcomb brought over to the course a sam- 
ple of his trotters to try for the silver cups that 
were offered for the day's sport. Neno Bingen 





ARTHUR L. POWER 
Official Starting Judge of Metropolitan Club 



JOHN N. MACLEOD 
Treasurer Metropolitan Club 1914 





CHARLES E. AUSTIN 
Well Known Member of Metropolitan Club 



JUSTIN EDWARDS 
President Bay State Short Ship Circuit 



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won his race and cup handily, as did Aliss 
Eleanor her event. The latter was pitted 
against a fast field of trotters, including Do- 
die K., 2:13 1-2, but she won easily in straight 
heats, the last one in i ;o8 1-2. 

While Mr. Whitcomb spends his Summers 
at Hillanddale Farm, his \\' inter residence is at 
14 Farrington Avenue, Allston, Mass. 

ARTHUR L. POWER 

Arthur L. Power was born in Boston in 
1859, and attended the public schools of his 
native city. His first work was for Xathan- 
iel Tufts, manufacturer of gas meters, 42 Stul- 
liury Street, Bo.ston. In 1880 he entered the 
emplov of A. Corse, as traveling salesman. 
He went to New York :n 1882 as the X. E. 
representative for Gledhill, Meinken & Har- 
ris, wall papers. The following year he en- 
gaged with Robert S. Hobbs & Co., wall 
papers, where he remained for seven years, 
and the last eighteen years has been mill 
agent for l'"r. I leek & Co., of Xevv York, 
wall paper manufacturers, ^Ir. Power hav- 
ing the Boston office at '.01 Tremont Street.' 

]Mr. Power has been prominent in the rac- 
ing of the Metropolitan Club, which organ- 
ization he joined in its early days. Xot only 
has he raced several horses in the matinees, 
but for several seasons has been the official 
starting judge. He served, too, on the board 
of directors. Among the horses he raced at 
Charles River Speedway were : L'Empereur, 
2:25; Alice Wilkes (3), 2:171-4; David S., 
2:271-2; Persilica, 2:273-4. by Baron 
Wilkes; Prince Simmons, !)y Simmons, and 
Toreador. Mr. Power is a director in the 
Marshfield Agricultural & Horticultural So- 
ciety, and manager of the horse department. 
He has been a big help in putting the Marsh- 
field Fair on the map of leading Massachu- 
setts I-'airs. Mr. Power resides in Xorwell. 
Mass. 

JOHN N. MACLEOD 

Joiix X. Macleod was born in Stornoway. 
Province Quebec, in 1872. From 1887 to 
igo3 he was engaged in railroad work for 
the Canadian Pacific, Boston & Maine, and 
Xew York, X^ew Haven & Hartford Rail- 
ways. He then entered in the wholesale coal 
business, being at present vice-president of 
the Spring Coal. Co., 50 Congress Street. Bos- 
ton, RIass. ]\Tr. Macleod is a member of the 
^Metropolitan Driving Club, of which he was 
treasurer in 11)14. He did excellent work 
for the club in his official capacity, his ex- 
tended business career having been a distinct 
benefit in administrating the financial afifairs 
.^f the organization. Mr. Macleod resides in 
X''ewton Center, I\Iass. 



JUSTIN EDWARDS 

Justin Fdw-\rds, a member of the Gentle- 
men's Driving Club of Boston, and who 
served on the executive committee, is best 
known to horsemen as the father of the Bay 
State Short Ship Circuit, but previous to 
that honor he campaigned the pacing mare, 
Owaissa, 2 :c6 3-4. 

In 1913 Mr. Edwards made strenuous ef- 
forts in organizing the half-mile tracks of 
Massachusetts into what might be a compact 
race circuit. This he did for the elevation of 
the sport, and to give the owners of local 
horses the opportunity of earning money in 
the early Summer, in place of remaining in 
idleness the most of the year, or until the 
Fall fairs. His efforts in that year proved 
unsuccessful. ]\lr. Edwards did not despair, 
but he kept strenuously at work, so that in 
the Spring of 191 4 he saw his efforts cul- 
minate in success. 

The r.av State Short Ship Circuit opened 
at Combination Park, Medford, and racing 
was held at the prominent half-mile tracks in 
this state and one track in Rhode Island, at 
Hillsgrove. aud proved a tremendous success, 
considering that the meetings were conducted 
without the financial benefits of a pool box. 
So successful were these series of meetings 
that plans were made in the Fall for a ban- 
quet to be held in Boston, in January. 1915. 
at which time would be perfected the ar- 
rangements for even a larger circuit in the 
coming year. Mr. Edwards was rewarded 
for his zealous work in behalf of the circuit 
bv being elected president for 1915. 

INIr. Edwards is a licensed starting judge, 
and has performed good services at different 
tracks. He has always been greatly interest- 
ed in the South Framingham Fair and, it 
was his connection with that association, that 
first gave him the idea of the Short Ship Cir- 
cuit. In racing he was identified on the pro- 
fessional turf with Willie Robbs, 2:14; Dr. 
Shorb, 2:161-4; Xerissa, 2:213-4; and 
C)waissa, 2 :r/) 3-4, which, after her retire- 
ment from the turf, was a producer of ex- 
treme speed. ^Ir. Edwards resides at 
WeHes'ev Hills, Mass. 

C. E. AUSTIN 

C. F. Au.STiN, one of the quiet wurkers of 
the Metropolitan Club, which he joined in 
1907 and served two years on the entertain- 
ment committee, is one of the successful 
business men of Boston. In 1884 he en- 
tered the employ of Jacob Alitchell and C. H. 
Woodbury, importers of crockery, china and 
glass, at 56 Pearl Street, and later a) 76-92 
Pearl Street. Upon removal to their present 
location, s^'^^S'^^'O Atlantic Avenue, they in- 




CHARLES H. BELLEDEU 
First in Directing the Affairs of the Metropolitan Club 



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corponited under the name oi .Mitchell, 
Woodbury, & Co. :\Ir. Austin, by tireless in- 
dustry and sterling worth, a number of years 
ago became one of the firm. He resides at 
46 Pleasant Street, Methuen, Mass. 



CHARLES H. BELLEDEU 

Ciiari.es H. Belledeu was born in ^^"est 
Deer Pslc. Me., in i860, and was graduated 
from the local schools of his native town. 
His first work in Boston was in 1879 as a car- 
penter's apprentice for a .Mr. JJlford. in the 
North End. After serving three and a half 
years, he entered the employ of ,'. and C. A. 
Noyes, builders and contractors,' 5 Province 
Court, Boston, and, in 1S8S he bought out the 
interest of J. Noyes and soon after became 
the sole owner of the business. He remained 
in Province Court until 1908, when he re- 
moved to Wareham Street. Due to ill health 
he retired from business in 1913. 

^Ir. Belledeu was one of the very first mem- 
bers of the :\Ietropolitan Driving Club, one of 
the charter members of the Dorchester Driv- 
ing Club, and a member of the Gentlemen's 
Driving Club of Boston, where he served on 
the executive committee for five years. \\"hile 
Mr. Belledeu was the first secretary of the 
Dorchester Club, and did much for' that or- 
ganization in the early days when its meeting 
place was at Morrill's Hall, yet his connection 
with the Metropolitan Club so far superseded 
the others in importance, that it is in that 
particular light he stands so prominent in the 
matinee field. 

Mr. Belledeu was the first president of the 
Metropolitan Driving Club and held that of- 
fice for six consecutive years. He was, there- 
fore, in the executive's chair when that par- 
ticular piece of furniture was, to all intents 
and purposes, located on the sidewalk at 
Charles River Speedway. When he retired 
from office, though, the club was owner of 
its own property and had, for a long time, been 
in most thriving circumstances. 

In 1905 Mr. Belledeu was a most zealous 
worker in having the clubhouse at Charles 
River Speedway transferred from a syndicate, 
headed by Thomas G. Plant, to the Metropoli- 
tan Driving Club. Finally, in order to accom- 
plish this, he was obliged to stand sponsor for 
the sum of $5,000. In taking this obligation 
Mr. Belledeu fully understood that were the 
Metropolitan Club to dwindle out, it would be 
the last of racing at Charles River Speedway, 
and would leave him the sole owner of a club- 
house located in a part of the city where no- 
body wanted one. 

But in no way did Mr. Belledeu consider 
the possibility of such a fact arising, so firm 
was his conviction in the future sticcess of the 
driving club of which he was at the head. 



As was afterwards proved, his faith in the 
enterprise was well substantiated. 

It was in the last year of Mr. Belledeu's 
reign as president, 1909, that he conceived the 
idea of a half-mile track to be located between 
the speedway proper and the Charles River. 
He talked this over with a few members of 
the club and they agreed that it looked feasible, 
provided the ^Metropolitan Park Commission- 
ers could be induced to go ahead with the 
project. 

Mr. Belledeu had several talks with Super- 
intendent Gilman, of the speedway, regarding 
the possibility of having the half-mile track 
and Mr. Gilman was very enthusiastic over 
its construction, believing that with this addi- 
tion the Charles River Speedway in every way 
would certainly be the best in the whole coun- 
try. 

In interviewing the Metropolitan Park Com- 
missioners, disappointment was in store for 
Mr. Belledeu and his followers, in their stating 
that lack of funds would prevent them from 
building the half-mile track in the very near 
future. He related this downfall to ^Ir. Gil- 
man. The latter cheered him up by saying 
there were tons of ashes dumped at divers 
places during the year, and that he would see 
in the future that they were put on the rnarsh- 
land, which had been surveyed for the half- 
mile course. This Mr. Gilman did for almost 
three years or, to be exact, until the season of 
191 1. \Mien the grade of the marshland had 
been raised to the proportions required, and 
all the expense necessary for the Park Com- 
missioners would be in covering the ashes 
with loam, they readily consented to do so. 
and, as is well known, the half-mile track 
was opened for racing in the season of 1912. 

To give ]Mr. Belledeu's complete career in 
amateur racing would require a volarne of 
space in itself. His fun horses included 
Kentucky Wilkes, 2:21 1-4: Ludlow, mati- 
nee, 2;T()I-4: Black Diamond. 2:321-4 (a 
great snow horse); Susie K., 2:241-.?. mati- 
nee record. 2:14; Ben H., 2:12 3-4; Xed 
Winslow, 2:123-4; Chase, 2:071-4. Ken- 
tucky Star. 2:08 1-2, which Mr. Belledeu 
drove a mile in 2:031-2; Haynes, 2:233-4; 
Doctor G.. 2:21; Dash, 2:16 3-4, matinee 
record, 2:12, etc. 

Mr. Belledeu was the first one to drive at 
speed over the Charles River Speedway as, 
on the day it was opened to the public, he 
started Kentucky Star in the contest with 
other aspirants to be first over the course, 
and Kentucky Star was easily the winner. 

In 1906 r^Ir. Belledeu won twelve races 
with Kentucky Star, driving him in 2:093-4, 
to wagon, in one of the events at Readville. 
He was the winner of tlie first race, and the 




W.\RD W., 2:09 1-4 
Marching it off for His Owner, Bert W. Gove 




E. D. M., 2:14 1-4 
All Ready to Score for the Word at Charles River Speedway. Driven by A.J. Furbush 



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first blue ribbon given by the Gentlemen's 
Driving Club of Boston. One matinee clay 
he won all of the races at Readville, captur- 
ing six cups, one each with Aline. Susie K., 
Dash, Altro L., Promise, and Kentucky Star. 
This was featured by the Boston newspapers 
as "Belledeu Day." He has won hundreds 
of ribbons, and has a large collection of silver 
cups, of all sizes and values, to show visitors. 

One is the big championship pacing cup, 
given by the Boston Club, which he won 
four times with Prince Wilkes. He also 
drove four winning races for the champion- 
ship trotting cup, which was called the "Per- 
petual Cup." with Ben H., Altro L., Promise, 
and Dash. The conditions being that the owner 
must win with the same horse in three con- 
secutive seasons. Mr. Belledeu's victories did 
not secure him the trophy, he not owning all 
of the horses that he drove. 

I\Ir. Belledeu came very near to buying 
Uhlan when he was a two-year-old. Mr. 
Parker having him that Fall at the Charles 
River Speedway, ^Ir. Belledeu entered into 
negotiations with the object of buying him 
for $1,500 and, again the next Summer, he 
nibbled' at the proposition, but Charles Sand- 
ers proved the fortunate man in securing the 
prize. 

An event that Air. Belledeu often alludes 
to was the defeat of Landlord, at that time 
the champion pacer of the Dorchester Club. 
The racing was then over the Blue Hill 
Avenue Speedway. ^Nfr. Belledeu had pur- 
chased Kentucky Star and immediately after 
challenged Mr. Young, the owner of Land- 
lord, for the championship. It was not easy 
for Kentucky Star to win, however, for 
Landlord made him go four heats in 29. 
29 1-4, 29 3-4 and 29 3-4 seconds. 

In one season Mr. Belledeu drove in "S 
races to matinee wagon, of which he won 33 
firsts. Among the horses he drove that year, 
besides his own, were those of ^Messrs. 
Shepard, Bradley and Bigelow. 

Mr. Belledeu is a thirty-second degree 
Mason and a Shriner. He resides at 70 
Roslin Street, Dorchester, ?\Iass. 

C. S. SPENCER 

C. S. Spencer was elected president of the 
Metropolitan Driving Club in the season of 
191 2 in place of Fred C. Garmon, who re- 
signed. Not caring to resume the office for 
the year of 1913, he was finally prevailed 
upon to accept a position on the board of 
directors, and as chairman of the executive 
committee. 

Owing to a sudden change in his business 
aiYairs, which necessitated the removal of his 
residence to New York City, he was com- 



pelled, in February of 1913, to resign from 
the Metropolitan Club, much to the regret of 
all the members. During the Spring series of 
matinees, in commemoration of what Mr. 
Spencer had done for the club, there was set 
apart one day in his honor, and one of the 
biggest crowds ever seen at the speedway 
were assembled to enjoy the afternoon's rac- 
ing. 

Mr. Spencer has owned and raced some of 
the best trotters and pacers that have taken 
part in the racing at the Charles River 
Speedway. Of his trotters can be men- 
tioned Creighton, 2:08 1-4; La Boudie, 2:10; 
jay Kay, 2:15 1-2; Commodore Bingen, 
2:17 3-4; The Lookout, 2:171-4; Orale 
2:17 1-2, and Harry Bingen, 2:19. Of the 
pacers he has owned can be mentioned Miss 
Adbell, 2:06 1-4; Ethel Direct, 2:11 3-4; 
Ethel S., 2:15 1-4; Bon \'iew. 2:15 1-4; 
Mattic Alarch. 2:14 1-4, and Antifriction, 
2:14 [-4. 



ARTHUR H. ALLEY 

Artiii'r H. Alley, whose place of business 
is 38 Hawlev St.. Boston, has a very wide ac- 
quaintance throughout New England. For 
many years he was closely identified with the 
matinees at Charles River Speedway and at 
the Readville track, with the trotting mare, 
Lottie Fallis, 2:20 1-4, and a matinee record 
to wagon of 2:15. Mr. Alley is a life mem- 
ber of the Metropolitan Club, and on the 
board of directors of the Gentlemen's Driv- 
ing Club of Boston. Air. Alley resides in 
Norwood. Mass. 



G. PRAY SMITH 

G. Pray Smith was born in Northumber- 
land, N. H.. in 185 1, and received his educa- 
tion in the schools of that town. In 1895 he 
opened a mining office in Boston, and was 
always in business for himself in that line and 
in promoting, which has taken him to all parts 
of the country. He is an expert on explo- 
sives. He joined the Metropolitan Driving 
Club in 1905, and. after filling several posi- 
tions of importance in the club, was elected 
president in 1913, and for a second term the 
following year. He has been for six years 
national president of the P. O. S. of A., an 
organization of 300,000 members. 

Mr. Smith has been a diligent worker in 
the interests of the Metropolitan Club, and 
has missed but very few of the matinees, 
when he has been in Boston, since becoming a 
member. For a number of years he has been 
the announcer of the winners and positions of 
the horses in the matinees, and it is well worth 
a trip to the speedway to hear the clear enun- 




MARTHA G. (Matinee Record), 1:00 i-4 

One of the Brilliant Matinee Trotters of 1914 at Charles River Speedway. Owned and 

Driven by John W. Ellis 




MISS ZOMBRO (by Zombro) 

Dam, Miss Cains, Half-Sister of Sterling McKinney, 2:06 1-4. Owned and Driven by 

V. C. Bruce Wetmore 



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ciation and pleasing way in which he renders 
ihe judge's decisions. 

Mr. Smith has been identified with many 
of the horses that have raced at Charles River 
Speedway, and with many that have made 
fast records in professional races throughout 
New England. The most prominent horse 
with which he was connected was a half-in- 
terest in the famous campaigner, Joe Patchen, 
2:01 1-4. Mr. Smith resides at 34 Park St., 
Newton, ^ilass. 

ALMON J. FURBUSH 

Almon j. FuRBUSH was born in Lebanon, 
Me., in 1859. He received his education in 
the town schools of his place of birth and 
was graduated from the ISerwick High 
School. His first work in Boston was ni 
1883, as a grocery clerk for J. H. Nute. 
I'he following year he started in business 
for himself, opening a grocery store at 329 
Washington Street, Brighton. He later 
opened a sale stable, where he is still lo- 
cated, at 200 'A'ashington Street, Brighton. 
He was one of the first members to join the 
Metropolitan Driving Club, and served on 
the board of directors and filled the office 
of treasurer. He also belongs to the 
Knights Templar, Knights of Pythias and 
Golden Cross. 

So prominent has been Mr. I'urhush in 
the matinee racing at the Charles River 
Speedway that to leave out his name, and 
the horses that he drove, would be to 
greatly depreciate the length of the sum- 
maries. He has owned and sold 211 horses 
with records from 2:031-4 to 2:30. among 
the fastest being My Star, 2:033-4; Xathan 
Straus, 2:03 1-2; Doris B., 2:05 3-4, the 
holder, at one time, of the world's record to 
ice of, 2:131-4; Frank Wilson, 2:061-4, 
the holder of a half-mile ice record (straight- 
away) of 58 3-4 seconds ; Claymos, 2 :o7 3-4 ; 
Phoebon W'., third heat in 2 :c8 3-4 ; Edwin 
S., 2:08; Chief W'ilkie, 2:123-4, that de- 
feated more than a hundred different pacers 
and never lost to a pacer but what he, in 
turn, defeated that same horse. He was also 
Winner of fourth money in the $15,000 pac- 
ing handicap at Readville, the distance be- 
ing one and a half miles, and was timed, 
separately, at the rate of 2:10 for the mile. 
Mr. Furl)ush resides in Brighton, ]\Iass. 

BERT W. GOVE 

Bert W. Gove was born in Nahant, Mass., 
in 1875, ^"fl was graduated from the local 
schools of his native town. His first work in 
Boston was in 1893 at the Ouincy Market, 
He started in business for himself, in i8q6, at 
54 Beach Street, Boston, opening a fish mar- 



ket, and is still in the same line, under the 
firm name of Gove & Mollins, with stores at 
156 Federal and 152 Summer Streets, Bos- 
ton. He joined the Metropolitan Driving- 
Club in 1904, when it was organized, and has 
served on the board of directors. He also be- 
longs to the fraternal order of Masons. Mr. 
Gove has been prominent in matinee circles, 
having owned Ward M., 2:09 1-4; Victor C, 
2:10 1-4; Billy Wilkes, 2:29 1-2; Billy H., 
2:10 3-4; ]\Iiss \'assar, 2:17 1-4; Clontarf Jr., 
2:24 1-4; B. R. C, afterwards raced in 
Canada under the name of Prince Rupert, 
2:191-4; Mardel. 2:151-4, and the famous 
matinee trotter. Earl King, afterwards owned 
by Flollis Gallup. Mr. Gove resides at 2^ 
Hooker Street, Allstnn, Mass. 

JOHN W. ELLIS 

John W. Ellis was born in Woonsocket, 
R. I., and joined the Metropolitan Driving 
Club in 1914. He is one of the successful 
business men of his native state, and presi- 
dent and manager of the Providence Gas Co. 

Mr. Ellis has owned a horse having speef 
for the past fifty years, and enjoys the sport 
of amateur racing as well now as ever. He 
has never raced a horse for money or a 
purse, owning them for their good road 
qnalitics or for speedway purposes. 

In illustration of his devotion to his horse 
is of on? he purchased when a four-year-old 
and gave a lespectable burial when he was 
twenty years old, and he always declares 
that the horse was the best he ever owned. 

The season of 1914, Mr. Ellis raced the 
prominent speedway performer, Martha G.. 
and was very successful with her in the 
matinees at Charles River Speedway, win- 
ning many blue ribbons, she, as alwavs. 
being a hard proposition to beat. In the 
handling of this mare, Mr. Ellis showed he 
was adept in driving. Coming to the club 
almost a stranger, many supposed that the 
racing part (if the sport was new to him, but 
the experience of fifty years of brush driving 
on the road had its benefits, as was soon 
demonstrated by the expert way he drove the 
little black mare to repeated victories. 

Martha G. had made history at Charles 
River Speedway in the hands of Fred G. 
Garmon, wh.en. in tlie Spring series of 1909, 
she won the chamijion cup for trotters, and 
earned a record of i :co 3-4, the same taken 
in the third heat of her race. When she first 
came to the speedway she was capable of 
showing only about a 2 :40 gait, but her im- 
provement was rapid, and it was but a short 
time before she was capable of racinar with 
the fastest trotters in the club. Mr. Ellis re- 
sides at Woonsocket. R. I. 




JOHN O. REAY 
A Member of Several Driving Clubs andlHas Owned Some of the Fastest Pacers Raced 
in New Engh nd 



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V. C BRUCE WETMORE 
\'^. C. Bruce W'etmore, who became a 
member of the MetropoHtan Driving Ckib in 
IQ14, is one of the leading electrical mer- 
chants of Boston, being senior member of 
the firm of Wetmore-Savage Co., at 76 Pearl 
Street. While one of the new members of 
the ckib, yet he entered the sport of matinee 
racing with the spirit that promises well for 
his future success on the speedway. The 
horses he raced in 1914 were Miss Zombro 
and Merrywise, the latter with a trial of 
2:18 1-4 over a half-mile track, and these two 
gathered in their share of the blue ribl)ons. 
He also owns the speedy mare, Fancy Maid. 
Mr. Wetmore is a member of the B. A. A., 
Boston Yacht Club, Exchange Club, the 
Algonquin Club, and belongs to the Masonic 
fraternitv. He resides at Westford, Mass. 



J. O. REAY 

J. O. Reav was born in Eminence, Ky., in 
1872, and was graduated from the Eminence 
College. He came to Boston in 1900, as man- 
ager of the Queen City Printing Ink Co., lo- 
cated at 125 Purchase Street. He joined the 
Metropolitan Driving Club in 1909, the Dor- 
chester in 1910, the Hampden Club of Spring- 
field in the same year, and the Old Colony in 
1912 ; and, as he also belongs to the Elks, he 
can be called quite a joiner, particularly of 
matinee clubs. He was on the matching com- 
mittee of the Metropolitan the season of 1912. 

Mr. Reay's native town was located forty 
miles from Lexington, and, as is well known, 
the atmosphere of the "blue grass"' country 
!ias always produced a lover of the horse, so 
it was in the case of the subject of this 
sketch, who might well be said to have been 
born and raised among horses. 

In the first eight years of his residence in 
Boston he was so busy establishing his busi- 
ness that being interested in horses was out 
of the question ; but in 1908 he branched out 
and purchased of Benjamin A. Ball, of the 
New York Life Insurance Co., two brood 
mares and two colts. He sold one of these 
mares, Lantar, 2:13 1-4, to Dr. C. A. Thomp- 
son, who matineed the mare in Iht Metropoli- 
tan Club races for several years. The other 
mare. Pure Gold, he bred to I5ingen, 2 :o6 1-4, 
the produce being Gold Bingen, 2:21-1-4. 
Gold Bingen, as a two-year-old, showed 
promise of being a fast trotter and was sent 
to Tommy Murphy, at Macon, Ga., to winter 
and train. As a three-year old he showed a 
mile in 2:14. Gold Bingen, in his four-year- 
old form, was given a few races by ]\Ir. Reay, 
but went lame and was sent to Springfield, 
Ohio, for a season in the stud. In 1912 he 
was at the home of Great Heart, in Cold- 



waler, Mich., and during the season of 1914 
he was in blemingsburg, Ky., at Hart Bros. 
Farm. 

In 1908 Mr. Reay bought \"esta Boy, 
2 :o5 1-4, and won thirteen out of fourteen 
races with him in the free-for-alls over New 
England tracks. The only race he lost was to 
John McEwen at Brockton Fair, and he won 
two heats in the race. His greatest race was 
when he defeated Jenny W. at Nashua, X. H., 
just after she had made a Vermont state rec- 
ord at Barton, \'t He was matched to race 
for $2,oco at Great Barrington with Aileen 
^^'ilson, 2 :o2 1-2, in 1909, but the race had to 
be called of? on account of the lameness of 
\'esta Boy. 

The old war horse, Gallagher, 2:03 1-2. won 
ten straight races for Mr. Reay over half-mile 
tracks, breaking four track records, an.d was 
the largest' money-winning pacer in New Eng- 
land in the season of 1910. He appeared at 
the big interclub meet of the Greater Boston 
Driving Clubs at Combination Park, that sea- 
son, and defeated Reliance and a good field of 
fast pacers in I :02 1-4 and i 103 1-4, materi- 
ally helping the Metropolitan Club to win the 
championship driving club cup. 

He next owned We Lead, 2 117 1-4, and then 
Goldie Dillard. 2:11 1-4, Cresceus Boy, Onoto 
B., Ed. Direct, and George Decker. 

The first horse that he ever matineed was 
George Decker, with the Metropolitans at 
Charles River Speedway, and he was the worst 
puller that a man could imagine. Mr. Reay 
got John Trout to drive the gelding one after- 
noon, and when he found out that even he 
could not hold him, it so discouraged Mr. Reay 
tliat he gave him a quick sale. 

He then bought Wesley Summers, with 
which he had great success in the amateur 
races during 1912, he winning the point cup 
with nine firsts and one second, the only horse 
beating him being Chief Wilkie, and he had 
beaten the Chief the week before in a handi- 
cap race, having -a fifty-foot start. Wesley 
Summers won 39 points out of a possible 41, 
the largest percentage of points that any pacer 
ever won at the Metropolitan Club races. While 
owned by Mr. Reay he won 21 blue ribbons 
and six reds in 27 starts. 

Russell Pointer, 2:22 1-4, was the next 
]mcer Mr. Reay owned and he had a lot of 
enjoyment in beating Mardell and Spim on 
one Winter's afternoon, but for some reason 
Russell Pointer and his owner did not get 
along very well and they parted company. 

Mr. Reay then bought the pacer. Kid 
Downey. 2:16 1-4, that he had seen finish sec- 
ond at Bangor. .Me., in the big races there in 
1913, in 2:121-4. ^Ii". Reay had trouble irk 




LOUISE E. (Wagon Record), 2:10 3-4 
Only Boston Winner in Big Intercliib Meet at Readville Track. Owned by William H. Emerson 




GEORGE N. (by AJliewood), 2:09 1-2 
He Has a Trial at Readville of 2:07 1-4. Owned and Driven by Fred C. Garmon 



204 The Driving Clubs of Greater Boston 

getting Kid Downey to step around the turns Louise E.'s principal amateur events will 

at the Charles River half-mile track without here be given space, and a worthy name she 

breaking, and the result was that he wer^t made for herself. In the season of 1905 she 

the way of the previous ones— to a new owner, won the speed CLip at the Charles River 

At the Old Glory sale, the Fall of 1913, Air. Speedway, lowering the pacing record to 
Reay bought the pacing queen, Ruth D., ! :o2, a reduction of 21-2 seconds from the 
2:061-4, her record made over a mile track, previous record, made by Phoebon W. 
and that had won a heat in 2:06 1-2 on a half- In 1906 was the great interclub meet at 
mile course. In the Spring series of 1914 she Readville track, in which competed the fast- 
made Chief Wilkie lower the track record to est trotters and pacers owned in the Cleve- 
I :o4. and the week before that she had won a land. New York, Syracuse, Memphis and 
very creditable victory over the Chief. On June Boston Driving Clubs. T\Ir. Emerson and 
22. 'she equaled the same mark, in a race with Louise E. represented the Boston Club, the 
Miss Adbell, the matinee marking the occasion mare being driven by George A. Graves, 
of the opening of the new club stables. Ruth There were thirteen races in the meet, and, 
D. has the credit of being the only pacer hold- had it not been for Louise E., the Boston club 
ing equal honors with Chief Wilkie at the would have passed without having secured a 
Charles River half-mile track, as each has the single victory. 

track record of i 104 and defeated each other Pitted against the daughter of Gov. Bod- 

once in the only two races in which they met. well were the best amateur pacers in the 

The Fall of" 1914 Mr. Reay bought the country, eligible to the 2 :i3 pace. Few. even 

pacer, Star Patch. 2:041-4. of her friends, had an idea that Louise E. 

Not only is Mr. Reay an enthusiastic mem- could more than make a decent showing, but 

ber of several driving clubs, he always being the result demonstrated of what material she 

within reach when anything is to be accom- was made In straight heats she led the field 

plished or wanted, but Mrs. Reay is equally to the wire, and the second one w^as in the 

as fond of the sport as is her husband. She last time of 2:103-4. a whole second faster 

is an active member of the Ladies' Auxiliary than her professional record, mafle later to 

of the Metropolitans, doing much in promot- sulky. The complete summary of the event 

ing the organization with her sister members, follows : 

Mr. and Mrs. Reay reside at Newton High- Readville, Mass., Sept. 4, 1906. 2:13 class, pacing; 

lands, Mass., and have three beautiful chil- pnze, $100 cup t • it 

J W . H. tmerson s (Boston) b. m., Louise r.. 

aren. (Mr. Graves) i i 

F. G. Jones' (Memphis) blk. g.. William O. 

WILLIAM H. EMERSON (Mr. Jones) 3 2 

William H. Emerson is one of the leading ^'(MV^^wnn ^^^"'"''^ '"'' '"" "^"'■'''"' - 3 

business men of Boston, with his address at q^^^^;. r' "^.Hall's" ( BoVtonV' b." m.! 'Neflie 's'. 

184 Summer Street. He was one of the early (Mr. Hall) 4 4 

members of the Metropolitan Driving Club, Dr. H. D. Gill's (New York) ch. m.. Sue 

as he was also of the Gentlemen's Driving .^ix (Mr. Gill) ...... .... 6 5 

cib lie nas ctisu wi Lii^ -jv. .-, \\alter Termvn s (New \ork) b. g., Barnetto 

Club of Boston, and the Fellsway Club. He (Mr. jermyn) 5 6 

is past president of the Boston Shoe Asso- ' Time— 2:12, 2:103-4. 

ciates, which office be held three years. The following Winter, or to be exact, on 

Mr. Emerson was very prominent in the February 12, 1907, Louise E. again came to 

matinees of the Metropolitan Club at Charles ji^^. rescue of the iiioston horses, the occasion 

River Speedway, and the amateur meets at b,eing the interclub meet between the Metro- 

Readville, his favorite being the pacing mare, j.olitan and Concord, N. H., clubs at the 

Louise E., 2:11 ,-^-4, and with a matinee record Charles River Speedway. In this series of 

of 2:103-4, to wagon. The Fall she was a races the ^Metropolitan succeeded in winning 

two-year-old Air. Emerson purchased Louise six of the ten events, but it was the une.x- 

E., from the Alartin Farm, Pittsfield, Ale. pected defeat of the Concord entry, Palatka. 

She was delivered to Air. Emerson the fol- Jr., by Louise E. that gave the home club the 

lowing Spring, when she was first fitted to a "honors. The time of the heats was 31 1-4 

set of shoes. and 31 seconds. 

Charles Lockwood developed the mare, Anotlier victory of merit for the trim little 

teaching her to go without the aid of hopples, niar.e. was at Combinaion Park, Aledford, on 

and started her in a few professional races the September 25. 1909, in the interclub meet be- 

season she was a four-year-old. The follow- tween the Dorchester, Lynn, Ouannapowitt 

ing season she took the word in nine races, and Fellsway Clubs. Louise E. represented 

winnirg two and getting second money in Fellswav in this turf battle, and she was 

four. against Lady Laurin. from the Lynn Club. 



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ROBERT E. THOMPSON 
Well Known Trainer and Driver 




J. VERNON STEELE 
One of the First Members of Metropolitan Club 



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JOHN M.IJOHNSON 
A Successful Breeder of Trotters 



MONROE GOODSPEED 
Old-Time Road Driver 



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bnt the race was over in straight heats. Louise 
E., in 1910, went to New York, and was 
prominent there on the speedway, she racing 
with the best pacers for several seasons. In 
the Fall of 1914 she was purchased by Dr. 
J. D. Thompson, she once more coming to the 
Charles River Speedway. Mr. Emerson re- 
sides in Newton, Mass. 

FRED C. GARMON 

Fred C. G.^umon was born in Laconia, 
N. H.. in 1858. and was graduated from the 
Tilton, N. H., Seminary. In 1892 he entered 
the employ of Browning, King & Co., of Bos- 
ton, and showed such ability as a business man 
that he soon became manager of their large 
clothing store. He became, later on. one of the 
firm of Leopold Morse Company, Boston, 
where he remained until 1913. With the open- 
ing of the John F. Fitzgerald Clothing Co., 
^Ir. Garmon became manager of the con- 
cern. He joined the Metropolitan Driving 
Club in 1904. He is also a member of 
the Masons and of the Elks. Mr. Garmon has 
been on the board of directors, one of the ex- 
ecutive committee, and in 1910 was elected 
president of the Metropolitan Club, which po- 
sition he held for three terms, with the excep- 
tion of a few months, when he resigned on ac- 
count of press of business matters and was 
succeeded for the remainder of the vear by 
C. S. Spencer. 

Mr. Garmon has always been a prominent 
factor in the matinees of the club. He is very 
apt in the handling of a horse, his clever work 
with Martha G. being one of the sensations 
of amateur racing in Greater Boston. Tak- 
ing this mare with the speed capacity of about 
2 :40. he started her improvement until she 
was acknowledged one of the fastest trotters 
on the Charles River Speedway, one of her 
winning heats being in i :oo 3-4. She was 
later sent to Providence, and there became 
champion of the speedway bv earning a rec- 
ord of I :02 3-4. the sjjeedway of that city hi-- 
ing somewhat slower than that of the course 
used by the Metropolitan Club, and, in 1914 
she was again one of the stars at Charles River 
Speedway. Mr. Garmon raced in the I'^all 
series of 1914 the stallion George N., bv Al- 
liewood, 2:09 1-2, out of Litde Better, 2 ;ii 1-4. 
that had worked Readville track in 2:07 1-4. 

Others of prominence that Mr. Garmcii 
has raced in the matinees are Hulman, 
2:13 1-4; Torreon, 2:16; Mattie March. 
2:141-4: Red Bird, 2:20; Mokello, 2:201-2; 
Nettie Margrave, 2:201-2; George Scofifield, 
2:24 1-4; Alvolo, 2:24 3-4, and Forest Bin- 
gen with a matinee record of i :o3. Mr. Gar- 
mon resides at 889 ^^'atertown St., West New- 
ton. Mass. 



w. J. McDonald 

W. J. McDonald in his twenty years in 
Boston at the head of the real estate busi- 
ness at 95 Milk Street, has placed his name 
along with the foremost men who are identi- 
fied in the city's affairs. He is on the 
board of directors of the Real Estate E.\- 
change, which governs all dealings in real 
estate in Greater Boston. He is also (in the 
board of directors of the Market Trust Co. 
and the Massachusetts Trust Co. 

Xot only is Mr. McDonald a power in his 
Ijusiness. but he is recognized in horse cir- 
cles as owning the leading matinee stable of 
New England. It was in 1906 that he be- 
came a menilier of the Metropolitan Club, 
just the time that the club was in need of 
stirring members, filled with red blood of en- 
ergy, and, in Mr. ^McDonald, the organiza- 
tion secured one who has since been a big 
aid in placing it in the position it now holds 
among the driving clubs of all New England. 
This he has accomplished, mostly, with his 
matinee horses, as, while he has been most 
liberal with his wealth on all occasions when 
called upon, \'et the only official office he 
could be induced to hold was on th.e board 
of directors. 

It was perhaps fortunate that for h:s start 
in s]ieedwav racing his first performer was 
the pacing gelding Claymos, 2:073-4, for not 
only did this gelding give Mr. McDonald 
many a good ride to victory in the fast pacing 
events, but one afternoon he tramped the 
half-mile on the upper road, straightaway, 
at the Charles River, in the remarkable time 
of 57 3-4 seconds, \vhich is still the record for 
that piece of racing dirt. 

\\'ith such speed as this there can be no 
wonder that tlie spirit of racing was thorough- 
ly imbued in the veins of Mr. IMcDonald, and 
that since those days he has steadily strength- 
ened his string of matinee and speedway 
horses. 

In liis day John Shepard was well known 
as the king-pin of Boston road drivers, but 
iiis stable barely covered more than a couple 
of fast trotters at any one time. George (i. 
Hall long held the top as the owner and driver 
of matched pairs that could sweep all before 
them when pitted against rival pairs, but 
neither Mr. Shepard nor Mr. Hall have at- 
tempted to boom the speedway sport, possi- 
bly for the reason that both liad arrived at 
the age when it was deemed imprudent for 
them to partake in speedway- racing when this 
sport became popular. 

Be that as it may. however. Mr. McDonald 
is one who realizes real happiness when in 
the thickest of speedway battle. Sitting back 
of one of his fleet-footed trotters or pacers in 




LADY HILTON 
Winner of Point Cup of Metropolitan Club the Season of 1904. 
Owned by E. C. Smith, and Mrs. Smith is Holding the Halter 



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M'LLE SILVER 

A Picture in Conformation and in Action. Owned by A. G. King, Cambridge, Mass. 



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combat with an opponent, giving him a race 
for the honors from start to finish, and at 
the very end barely liaving snfficient speed to 
win by inches, is tonic to his nerves that noth- 
ing else can duplicate. 

Like any true sportsman, of course, Mr. 
McDonald dearly loves to dri\e the winner. 
If he finds that what he has in equine Hesh 
has not the ability to more than hold its own 
it has been his motto to buy another with 
that capacity : hence it is that his stable ot 
today, and in the past few years, has won more 
than four hundred blue ribbons in competi- 
tion with the fastest trotters and pacers in 
Greater Boston. 

. 'Mr. McDonald is a natural horseman. 
From the beginning he had tlie rare ability 
of gettmg from a horse all that he could give 
in a race. In this, possibly, j\Ir. McDonald 
w'as fortunate in having secured for his tutor, 
at his start in matinee racing, so able a reins- 
man and all-around horseman as A. J. Fur- 
Ijush. 

First in the heart of Mr. McDonald comes 
the grand pacing gelding. Chief W'ilkie, 
2:123-4, who held the ].'acing championship 
of Charles River SiJcedwa}' for eight sea- 
sons. In winning mor'j than 100 races he 
placed the straightaway record for the regu- 
lar speedway at 58 seconds, his opening heat 
that dav being in 59 seconds, and is joint 
holder of the half-mile track record of i :o4, 
made in the Spring series of 1914. He has 
to his credit that no pacer ever defeated him 
but lie, in turn, was later returned the con- 
queror. The ones having won from Chiet 
W'ilkie are, however, about as scarce as hens 
teeth. On the snow Chief Wilkie has a rec- 
ord of 29 3-4 seconds, the speedway record. 

In the trotting gelding Demarest, 2:06 1-4, 
Mr. McDonald t)wne(l the champion of his 
gait at the speedway. The }'ear of 1912 
Demarest never met with a defeat, either in 
the Spring or the Fall series. In a winning 
race iie secured the trotting record of 
I :o4 3-4 for the half-mile track, wdiile over 
the straightaway he has won a heat in 
I :oo 1-4. 

Don Labor. 2:051-4, was purchased by 
Mr. McDonald in the season of 1914, and 
raced in the Fall series of matinees. As he 
was started with hardly any training, having 
Ijeen running out the early part of the year, 
he never was in proper condition to display 
his best efforts. Much better things are ex- 
pected from him in the sleighing and in the 
191 3 matinees. 

Of the other present occupants of the Mc- 
Donald matinee stal)le that have been promi- 
nent in the Charles River Speedway races 
are: Miss Adbell, 2:061-4: LaBoudie, 2:10; 



Directum Regent, 2:091-4; Orale, 2:171-2, 
trotting, 2:161-4, pacing; The Counsellor, 
2:17 1-4; Mendell, 2:21 ; Ecce Volo, 2:29 1-4; 
Mediumore, 2:12 1-2; Hal-at-Law, 2:10 3-4; 
\'irginia Hill, 2:17 1-2 ; Anita Knight, 2 :20 1-4, 
and Castle Todd. Mr. ■McDonald resides in 
Allston, Mass. 

JOHN IvI. JOHNSON 

John I\I. Johnson was born in Xorwalk, 
Conn., in 1856, and received his education in 
the schools of that city and in ^Malone, X. Y. 
He started in the wool and tanning business 
in St. John, X. B., in 1879. and later also 
had large interests in Calais, Me., of which 
cit\ he was IMayor for three terms and rep- 
resentative in the State Legislature. So ex- 
tensive became his business that, in 1900. he 
opened offices in Boston for the conducting 
of the wool and tanning output. 

Mr. Johnson is a member of the fMetropoli- 
tan Club and of the Gentlemen's Driving 
Club of Boston. He filled the position of 
vice-president of the fMetropolitan in 1914. 
He is also a member of the Xational Trotting 
Association, and in the past has been presi- 
dent of the Xew England Trotting Horse 
Breeders' Association, president of the Elaine 
Breeders' Association, president of the Grand 
Circuit, and director in the American Trot- 
ting Horse Breeders" Association of America. 

When eighteen years of age \h. Johnson 
bought his first colt, and it took every cent 
that he had. But the venture proved unsuc- 
cessful, as tlic colt got kicked and had to be 
killed. The next dip in the horse line was in 
buying a brood mare by Mambrino Charter, 
which he bred to Olympus, selling the foal for 
S7C0 to go West. His first real trotter was 
Lady Sim. 2:31 1-4, which secured the honor 
of holding the Maritime record for mares. 
Later he got the pacer. Ituna, 2:10, and she 
earned the Maritime record for pacing mares. 
He bought Kwanon, 2:121-4, at the Allen 
Farm, when he was a colt, and after racing 
him sold him to George \'an Dyke for $3,500. 

In 1898 ^Ir. Johnson purchased at the 
l-orbes' sale, held at the Forbes Farm, the 
Ijrood mare. Fanella. 2:13, at that time car- 
rying Sadie ^Mac. 2:06 1-4, wh.ich foal he sold 
when she was a yearling for $4,000. Todd, 
2:143-4, he bred and sold when a two-year- 
old for $4,coo. He was one of the syndicate 
that purchased Cochato for $io,cco, and the 
colt later won the Hartford Futurity and was 
sold for a large sum. 

'Sir. Johnson bought the Forbes Farm, in 
I'onkapoag, Mass., and renamed it the John- 
son Farm. In his breeding venture he was 
most successful, the list of high-priced and 
record trotters he bred and owned being a 




WM. RUSSELL ALLEN 
Proprietor of the Famous Allen Farm 




Photo from Boston Globe 

SIMON W. PARLIN 
Prominent Turf Editor 




HENRY W. BURRESS 
The Weil-Known Starting Judge 



The Driving Clubs of Greater Boston 



most extensive one, as the following amply 
shows : 

Direct Hal, Jr., 2 :o6 1-2 ; Electric Todd, 
2:09 1-2; Directum Regent, 2:09 1-4; Nancy 
McKerron, 2:10 1-2; The Exponent, 2:11 3-4; 
Capt. Aubrey, 2:07 1-4; Todd's Echo, 2 :2i 1-4; 
Echo Todd, 2:26 1-4; Auella, 2:20 1-2; Lizzie 
Gerow, 2:191-2; Tom Phair, 2:141-4; 
Guiterman (2), 2:241-2; Melva J., 2:101-2; 
George Gay, 2 :i6 1-2 ; Mayor Todd, 2:18 1-4 ; 
Day Book, 2 :o9 3-4 ; Directum Miller, 
2:051-4; Lord Roberts, 2:071-4; Silver 
Baron, 2:101-4; Baron Silver, 2:253-4; 
Oakley Baron, 2:23; Aquilin, 2:193-4; 
Prodigal Bingen, 2 :i6 1-2 ; Dingola, 2 :i3 1-4 ; 
Nellie Boca, 2:183-4; Craydon, 2:183-4; 
Arion Todd, 2:151-4; Bingen the Great, 
2:19 1-2. 

Mr. Johnson besides Fanella, before men- 
tioned, has owned the prominent brood mares 
Nancy Hanks, 2:04; May Fern, 2:111-2; 
Rubber, 2:10; Ligera, 2:273-4, the dam of 
Bingara ; Delagoa, dam of Melya J., 2 :io 1-2 : 
Improvidence, 2:12; Regent's Last, dam of 
Direct Hal, Jr., 2 :o6 3-4, etc. Mr. Johnson 
resides in the Back Bay, Boston, Mass. 



MONROE GOODSPEED 

Monroe Goodspeed was born in Montgom- 
ery, Vt., in 1842. His first work in Boston 
was driving a team, in i860, for Michael Ale 
in Medford. He then went to work for Ed 
Holmes in Medford, after which he returned 
to his native town for a spell and, returning 
to Boston, drove horse-cars. He started in 
business for himself in 1865, being one of the 
firm of Collins & Chase, expressmen in 
Brookline. In 1874, in partnership with 
Willard Stone, he opened a boarding and 
sale stable in Brookline. Soon after Mr. 
Stone died and Mr. Goodspeed run the busi- 
ness himself. He is now located in the 
boarding and hacking stable at 316 Washing- 
ton Street, Brookline. 

Mr. Goodspeed was one of the originators 
of the Metropolitan Driving Club. He at- 
tended the first meeting held in Young's 
?Iotel and was elected the club's first treas- 
urer. He has since held the office of vice- 
president and l)een on the board of direc- 
tors. In the inception of the club Mr. Good- 
speed secured many new members. He 
joined the Dorchester Driving Club in 1908. 

Mr. Goodspeed has always been one of the 
leading road-drivers of Greater Boston and, 
occasionally, he owned a trotter for profes- 
sional racing. Among those that he has 
owned were the Whitney Horse, that thirty 
years ago could trot in 2 :3o, which was then 
very fast; Zambia, 2:14 3-4; Mahlon, 



2:13 1-4; Navarro, 2:22 1-4; Beadle, that was 
a noted performer on the Mill Dam twenty- 
five years ago; "The Colt," noted on the 
snowpath, and kept by Mr. Goodspeed until 
he was twenty-three years old, when he had 
him killed; Helen Gould, 2:14 1-4; Starlight, 
2:28 1-4; Olivette, 2:31 1-4, one of the most 
stylish mares ever seen in Boston or vicinity ; 
and Goodspeed, with a matinee record of 
I :o2 1-2, the last trotter Mr. Goodspeed drove 
in matinee racing. Mr. Goodspeed also bred, 
in connection with Henry M. Whitney, the 
noted performers, Miss Whitney, 2 :o7 1-2, 
and Whitney, 2:121-2. Mr. Goodspeed re- 
sides at 19 ^^■averly Street, Brookline, Mass. 



ROBERT E. THOMPSON 

Robert E. Thompson was born in Colerain, 
Mass., in 1868, and was graduated from Arms 
Academy, Shelburne Falls, Mass. His first 
work in Boston was in the employ of H. B. 
Goodenough, Brighton, in the capacity of 
foreman. Later, in the same year, he opened 
the stable business in Brighton for himself, 
selling, boarding and training horses, where 
he is still located. 

Mr. Thompson was one of the first mem- 
bers of the jVIetropolitan Driving Club, and 
is also in the fraternal order of Masons. He 
has been a leading representative in the mati- 
nee racing at Charles River Speedway ; not 
only driving his own trotters and pacers in 
the events, but has usually been kept busy 
handling the reins for other members of the 
club. During the Summer months, too, Mr. 
Thompson devotes considerable of his time 
in touring the local half-mile tracks and pick- 
ing up some of the purses offered in profes- 
sional racing. 

In this way he has given the following 
their records: Ben Locanda, 2:103-4; Whit- 
ten Wilkes, 2:14; Gracie Baron, trotting, 
2:181-2, pacing, 2:201-2; On Wilkes, 
2:141-2; Lady Bingen, 2:161-2: Mokello, 
2:20 1-2; Tony D., 2:161-4; Ed Wilkes, 
2:131-4; Aristocrat, 2:251-2; Binjolla, 
2:173-4; Evelyn B., 2:291-2, and Commo- 
dore Bingen, 2:173-4. 

r)thers he raced, but did not give records 
to were: My Star, 2:033-4; Mattie March, 
2:141-4; Gallagher. 2:031-2; Alice Blair, 
Barbara B., 2:151-4; Frank S., 2:081-4; 
Outcast, 2:171-4; Bon View, 2:151-4; 
Candy Girl, 2:171-4; McEwen Belle, 
2:181-4; Captain Sampson, 2:121-4; Peter 
Reed, 2:191-4, winner of second money in 
$5,000 stake at Augusta, M'e., in Hanks' 
Circuit, and Jay Kay, 2:15 1-2. Mr. Thomp- 
son resides at 36 Surrey Street, Brighton, 
Mass. 




SPIM, 2:15 1-4 
A Prize Cup Winner in 1912 at Charles River Speedway; also of a Faber Cart. 
Owned by Dr. J. D. Thompson 




DEAN SWIFT, 2:12 1-4 
Winner of Prize Cups in Seasons of 1908-09 at Charles River Speedway. Inset — Dr. 
C. A. Thompson, Who Drove Dean Swift 



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WM. RUSSELL ALLEN 

Wm. Russell Allen is known in all quar- 
ters of the globe as the breeder of trotting 
horses of fashionable and prepotent blood, but 
very few persons are aware of the reason for 
Mr. Allen having his extensive breeding estab- 
lishment — the Allen Farm — in Pittstield, Mass. 
It is quite well known liow he was a success- 
ful business man in the Southwest, amassing a 
large fortune, and now owning vast interests 
in that section. With this fact in mind it 
might be supposed that Mr. Allen would have 
located his farm in some part of the \\'est or 
the Southwest. 

In locating at Pittsfield, though, Mr. Allen 
came back to the old family homestead. His 
grandfather was the first minister in Pitts- 
field and took part in the Revolutionary War 
at the battle of Bennington, Vt. Mr. Allen's 
grandfather lived on what is now a part of 
the Allen Farm, nearly it not quite lOO years 
ago, and Mr. Allen's father built a home in 
Pittsfield, in 1857, and bought another farm 
in 1865, which has not been out of the family 
since and is also now a part of the Allen Farm. 
Mr. Allen, when a boy, spent ten years in 
Pittsfield, which intensified his longing, while 
in the Southwest, to return late]- in life to the 
scenes and associates of his youthful days. 

The breeding operations of the proprietor 
of the Allen Farm commenced in 1873, when 
two fast road mares were bred to Waltham, 
a son of Hambletonian (10). From these 
mares came one colt and one filly. The filly 
was called Pansy, from which descended 
twenty-nine trotters in 41 years. Of these 
five secured records, six are still owned at 
the Allen Farm, five have died, while the re- 
maining 18 sold for $6,425. 

To illustrate the large proportions in which 
the breeding of trotters has been carried 
on at the Allen Farm : In twenty-four years, 
to the close of 1913, 834 horses were bred and 
146 horses purchased, a total of 980. Of 
these 776 horses were sold and 98 died, leav- 
ing at the farm io6 horses. Of the total num- 
ber bred and bought, 233 have taken records 
of 2 130 and better, and it must be remem- 
bered that 63 of the total were under two 
years of age. 

In the years that Allen Farm has been 
conducted there have been sold from its 
stables trotters that have gone to nearly every 
state in the I^nion, while twenty-four have 
gone to Europe and thirty-three have gone to 
Canada. 

During the twenty-four-year period named, 
there have been used at the farm seventy 
stallions, and their success in siring pre- 
cocious speed is demonstrated by the fact 
that thirtv-five of their get have taken records 



when two years of age, and fifty-five earned 
their way into the 2 130 list at three years of 
age. 

Space would not permit of giving the com- 
plete list of fast performers bred at the farm, 
like Baden, 2:05 1-4, the largest money-win- 
ner of any single season on the turf, and 
Belvasia, 2:061-4; Bergen, 2:063-4; Binvo- 
lo, 2 :o7 3-4, etc., but it may possibly be better 
used in telling of a few of the noted stallions. 

Kremlin, 2 :o7 3-4, i\Ir. Allen bought when 
a two-year-old and had trained to the world's 
trotting stallion record. It was likely the 
grand turf career of this stallion which 
brought the Allen Farm more prominently 
before the public. In his five-year-old form 
he was not only the champion, but he won 
the Transylvania stake over a crack field of 
starters, and in his campaign secured the race 
records at Mystic, Narragansett, and the 
Lexington, Ky., tracks. This was a great 
test that he was not a fair weather trotter. 

While Kremlin has made a name for him- 
self in the stud, both through his sons and 
daughters securing fast records, and, while 
seventeen of his sons have their get in the 
list, yet the great nick has been in blending 
the blood of Kremlin with that son of Bingen, 
— the remarkable sire of speed, Bingara. This 
Mr. Allen did through the daughters of 
Kremlin. The result of this cross has been 
amply demonstrated in the public careers of 
such trotters as Bisa, 2:101-4; Bergen, 
2 :o6 3-4 ; Bismya, 2 :09 1-4 ; Binvolo, 2 :o7 3-4, 
and about twenty others of prominence. 

Bingara was a yearling when purchased by 
Mr. Allen, and he was never trained, never 
raced, and never afterward off the farm. Be- 
fore Mr. Allen bought him he had worked, 
as a yearling, an eighth in 19 seconds, which 
makes it reasonable to believe, that had he 
received a season's traming he could have 
gained a record of merit. However, his suc- 
cess in the stud has been so great that it is 
fortunate that he was not placed on the turf 
for a year. 

From the very beginning Bingara gave 
promise of what a brilliant future there was 
for him, as, when five years of age, he got 
one in the list, the two-year-old Birri, 
2 :28 3-4. The next year, when only six, he 
had three new performers in Binvolo (2), 
2:15 1-4; Barra (2), 2:291-2; and Bisa (3), 
2 :27 3-4, and timed in a race in 2 :o8 3-4. 
When seven years of age Bingara's list was 
increased by five more trotters, and so the 
increase has been each year since. Of the 
total number of his foals that have been 
trained, over 70 per cent have taken records 
of 2 :30 or faster. 

Of other stallions standing at the farm are 




VERNAG, 2:21 1-2 
A Blue Ribbon Trotter in Metropolitan Club Matinees of 1914. 
by Edgar F. Power 



Owned and Driven 




ROSE BINGEN 
One of the Promising Young Trotters in the Metropolitan Club, 
by James E. Fitzgerald 



Owned and Driven 



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Todd Swift, 2:15 1-4, by Todd, 2:143-4, out 
of the great brood mare, Wyneta, by Wilkes 
Boy, 2:241-2; the staUion Belgrad, by Bin- 
gara, dam, the great brood mare, Kama, by 
Kremhn ; and the stallion Bertini (3), 2:22 1-4, 
by Bingen, 2:061-4, dam Kiel (3), 2:293-4, 
by Kremlin. 

No man attends to commercial affairs 
with better system than does Mr. Allen m 
running the Allen Farm. With the system 
of bookkeeping is included the period of 
gestation of each mare bred, the per cent 
of the foals that are colts or fillies, a bay in 
color, or a chestnut, or a brown, or a black, 
or a gray. The weight of each colt and filly 
is also recorded at birth. 

For a lover of horses, indeed, is the trip to 
the Allen Farm a treat, and one can well 
spend several days in going about the farm, 
seeing the trotters, stallions, brood mares 
and youngsters, and enjoying the grand 
scenery for which Pittsfield is famous. 



J. VERNON STEELE 

J. Vernon Steele was born in Jamaica 
Plain, Mass., in 1881, and received his educa- 
tion in attending schools located in at least 
six of the different states of the Union. In 
1899 he entered the employ of J. Abbott 
Clarke, Arlington, Mass., as clerk in his real 
estate office. He started in business for him- 
self in the Fall of 1903 in the manufacturing 
of Gillian horse boots, etc., at Canton, 
Ohio. He is at present in the wholesale 
produce business, 29 South Market Street, 
Boston, Mass. He became a member of the 
Metropolitan Driving Club in 1905, and also 
belongs to the Masons and the Somerville 
Lodge of Elks. 

Mr. Steele has been interested in owning a 
fast horse since a boy, but his first step into 
prominence was with C. E. H., trial of 
2:16 1-2, with which he was king-pin of the 
Arlington snowpath for two Winters. In 
1905 he owned the mare, Lady Rose, which 
he raced with success in the matinees at 
Charles River Speedway, winning the point 
cup for pacers in the Spring series of that 
season. In professional racing, Mr. Steele 
became prominent in the campaign of Gvi> 
Walnut, 2:081-4, who was raced over the 
mile tracks with credit. He also had out the 
gelding, Lexington, 2:17, that headed many 
summaries over the half-mile tracks. Mr. 
Steele resides in West Somerville, Mass. 



Smith & Co., wholesale dealers in butter, 
cheese, eggs and poultry at ^Ti Commercial 
Street, Boston, in 1892, where he is still en- 
gaged in business. He was one of the 
original members of the Metropolitan Driv- 
ing Club, and of the Fellsway Driving Club, 
and also belongs to the Masonic order and 
the Elks. In the first season of the Metro- 
politan Club matinees, at Charles River 
Speedway in 1904, Mr. Smith, with hii hand- 
some, clean-gaited trotting mare, Lady Hil- 
ton, won the point cup over a large held of 
contestants. Among others that he raced in 
the matinees were: Lady Wilkes, Baron, 
Belle Mack, Victor C, Dotty Direct, Baron 
Gwynne, Barney, etc. Mr. Smith resides at 
22 Hudson Street, Somerville, Mass. 



ERNEST C. SMITH 

Ernest C. Smith was born in East Bethel, 
Vt., in T876, and attended the schools cf Mel- 
rose, Mass. He entered the employ of A. M. 



SIMON W. PARLIN 

A history of horsemen of New England, 
in fact of America for that matter, would be 
deficient if a reference to the personality and 
labors of Simon W. Parlin were omitted. So 
long did his nimble pen record horse events 
and build incontrovertible arguments on the 
value of thoroughbred blood in the American 
light-harness horse, that his biography as 
written here is all too brief. 

Mr. Parlin began in 1876 to write articles 
of horse interest for the American Culti- 
vator, out of which grew the American Horse 
Breeder in 1882. From that day until 1912. 
when he retired to his native state of Maine, 
Mr. Parlin's editorial comment on equine 
matters, and his historical articles, were 
read throughout the civilized world and ac- 
cepted as authentic. 

In all of his many discussions with various 
editors and spasmodic critics, he stoutly and 
intelligently maintained his position, and. in 
fact, he was so well fortified with knowledge 
of his subject, that he was an antagonist 
worthy of any disputant's steel. 

Mr. Parlin's book, the "American Trotter," 
enjoyed a large circulation, and is a classic 
of horse literature. Mr. Parlin is a Civil 
War veteran, he serving in a Maine Cavalry 
Company throughout the war. He was the 
first secretary of the New England Trotting 
Horse Breeders' Association in the days 
when the Breeders' meetings were held at 
historic Mystic Park. 

A scholar, patriot, and withal a gentleman, 
dignified, kindly, and lovable, the life of 
.Simon W. Parlin will ever be a source of 
inspiration to those whose good fortune it 
has been to know him. 



HENRY W. BURRESS 

Henry W. Burress was born in Canal 
Dover. Ohio, in 1842. and always said that 




J. HENRY RICHARDSON AND HIS THORNDALE STOCK FARM, ANDOVER, MASS. 




The Former Home of Noted Stallion, Daniel Lambert, and Now the Home of the Royally-bred 

Stallion, Seumanee 



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he received his education in the best school 
on earth, "hustling for bread." Wh.en ii 
years of age he began riding running horses 
at tracks located in the states of Ohio and 
Kentucky. Later in life he opened a public 
training stable in the Middle West, and had 
some of the best trotters and pacers of 
his time in the sulky. Colt training was Mr. 
Burress' special hobby, and he points with 
pride to having broken and trained i\iaud S., 
when she was a two and a three-year-old, and 
declares she was perfect in deportment, not- 
withstanding all that was said against her 
habits. He developed The Moose, which was 
Canada's greatest trotter of the high wheel 
sulky days. He owned the stallion Passen- 
ger (3), 2:30, sire of Passenger Charm, 
2:13 1-4, etc., and also owned Jack Shackle- 
ford, 2:22; Sister Passenger, Wm. B. Fasig, 
2:241-4, and a number of others. 

New England horsemen, though, know 
Mr. Burress better in the capacity of a starting 
judge than in the training of horses. It was 
in the year 1887 that he appeared in the East, 
his work in the stand being at the Old Sau- 
gus track for James O. Gray and W. F. Hitch- 
ings. His career v/ith the starter's flag was 
very successful, his skill in getting the fields 
of horses away with little scoring and on their 
gait, being greatly appreciated by both the 
horsemen and the grandstand occupants. 
Mr. Burress started horses through New 
England, the South, Southwest and in Canada. 

In his wide experience in the judges' stands 
all over the country, Mr. Burress invented 
the Time Announcer, which flashes the time 
of the heats almost instantaneously to every 
part of the course, while another valuable 
acquisition is his designating numbers, arm 
and saddle back. These inventions are be- 
coming generally used at the leading race 
tracks. Mr. Burress resides in Salem, N. H. 



DR. JOSEPH DOUGLAS THOMPSON 

Dr. Joseph Douglas Thompson was born 
in Sackville, N. B., in 1876. He received his 
early education in the schools of his native 
town, and was graduated from Acadia Col- 
lege and the Ijaltimore (Md.) College of 
Dental Surgery. In 1900 he opened a dental 
ofifice in Newton Upper Falls, Mass., and is 
located at present at 11 56 Walnut Street, 
Newton Highlands, Mass. He joined the 
Metropolitan Driving Club in 1905 and has 
served on the nomination and other commit- 
tees. He is also a member of the Masons, 
Odd Fellows, Encampment and Arcanum 
orders of fraternity. 

Dr. Thompson has always taken a great 
interest in matinee racing, particularly on the 
Charles River Speedway. Soon after becom- 



ing a memb£r, which was in the earlier days 
of the club, his name appeared with those 
entering horses and, from that time to the 
present, he has taken a very prominent part. 
His partiality was a speedy pacer; one capa- 
ble of leading the way, but not of tlie hop- 
pled variety. 

One long remembered by the devotees of 
matinee racing in Greater Boston was Dean 
Swift, 2:12 1-4. In the Spring series of 1908, 
this smooth-going little gelding captured the 
second point cup for pacers. In the Fall 
series he was again the winner of the second 
point cup, and in 1909 he carried away the 
first point cud in the Spring series. 

With Editii R., 2:181-4; Dr. Thompson 
won the second point cup for pacers the 
Spring of 1911. The season of 1912 the 
doctor first raced his well-known pacing 
gelding, Spim, 2:151-4, and in the Spring 
series won the first point cup, having cap- 
tured thirteen heats in the average time of 
1:0811-13; and ihe also won a Faber road 
cart. Another that the doctor owned and 
raced, that cut a wide swath in local matinee 
circles, was Trixie S., 2:141-2, the pacing 
mare Dick Lawrence campaigned with suc- 
cess for several seasons on the professional 
turf. This mare proved equally at home on 
the speedway, and won many a clever victory 
for the doctor before he sold her to R. D. 
Stetson, of the Old Colony Driving Club, 
where the mare's chain of victories was 
continued. Dr. Thompson resides at 15 
T'orest Street, Xewton Highlands. Mass. 



CHARLES A. THOMPSON, M. D. 

Charles A. Thompson, M. D., was born in 
Sackville, N. B., in 1872. He attended the 
Sackville Superior School, College for 
Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore, Md., 
and was also graduated from the Harvard 
Medical School. He began the practice of 
medicine in 1897, opening an office in New- 
ton Highlands, where he is now located. 

Dr. Thompson joined the Metropolitan 
Driving Club in 1906. He served on the 
board of directors for two years. He is also 
a member of the Massachusetts Medical 
Societv, Newton Medical Society, and is a 
Knight Templar, an C)dd Fellow, and also 
belongs to the Royal Arcanum, and United 
\Vorkmen. 

In matinee racing Dr. Thompson has been 
a devoted enthusiast. In the matinees held 
at Charles River Speedway his name and his 
liorses have occupied a most prominent 
position. In the season of 1910 he won the 
first point cup for pacers, in the Fall series, 
with Johnny Smoker, 2:12 1-2. In the 
Spring series of 191 1 he won the speed cup 




Photo from Bo 



WALTER B. FARMER 

He Proved the Right Man at the'Right Time 

for the Metropolitan Club 




DANIEL H. HOLMES 

Well Known Member of Metropolitan Club 

Who Resides in Saybrook, Conn. 



JOHN H. FARNUM 
One of New England's Leading Turfmen 



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for trotters with Margate, 2:08 1-4, winning 
a heat in i :02 1-4, and the average time for 
two heats being i :02 7-8. Others of promi- 
nence that he matineed were Lanter, 2 :i3 1-4; 
Patricia, Spim, 2:15 1-4; Alchato, etc. Dr. 
Thompson resides at Newton Highlands, 
Mass. 



EDGAR F. POWER 

Edgar F. Power was born in Boston, 
Mass., in 1868, and was graduated from the 
Boston grammar and high schools. His first 
work in Boston was in 1886, learning the 
coffee business in the employ of Chase i'^ 
Sanborn, with which firm he is now travel- 
ing representative. Mr. Power joined the 
Metropolitan Driving Club in 1906, and has 
served on the house committee. He is also a 
Mason, Odd Fellow, and a member of the 
Cottage Park Yacht Club, and fourth presi- 
dent of the Cape Cod Council, Travelers' 
Association. 

Mr. Power is one of the racing powers o' 
the Charles River Speedway. He was always 
horsy from his toes up, it being his one 
particular fad, and he would never own any 
fjut a good trotter or pacer. Among those he 
matineed with success were Allenka, 2 :i3 1-4 ; 
Vernag, 2:21 1-2; Roscoe, 2:12 3-4; Billy 
Baggs, 2:22 1-4; Edgar Audubon, Beulah 
Ongate, Lotta Crabtree, Dandy Wilkes, etc. 

Mr. Power has taken a prominent part in 
the development of Winthrop, Mass., where 
he resides. Up to the Fall of 1914, he had 
built forty-three houses in that town, believ- 
ing it the right way, with the disposing of 
them to good families, in booming his town. 



J. HENRY RICHARDSON 

J. Henry Richardson can, in every particu- 
lar, be styled a self-made man. When enter- 
ing the age of manhood, he was employed 
in a m.ill at 50 cents a day and, later, in a 
hat shop receiving 85 cents a day. Not long 
after this, he made his appearance on the 
famous old Mile Ground of Boston with the 
two noted trotters, Belle Shacket, 2:271-2, 
and Carrie T., 2 :26 1-4, which were the top- 
notchers of that time on the snowpath. 

He started in business for himself in 
1875, opening the "Mammoth" boarding 
stable in Portland Street, Boston, where he 
remained eighteen years. After a short stop 
in the Bowdoin Square stable (Ned May- 
nard's noted stable), he located in the Cos- 
mopolitan stable, -16-54 Pitts Street, where 
he has been in business the past twenty-one 
years. Mr. Richardson was one of the first 
members of the Metropolitan Drivinc; Club, 
of which he is a life member, and also be- 
longs to the Ouannapowitt Driving Club 



and the Kenoza Driving Club of Haverhill, 
Mass. 

Mr. Richardson was very prominent in 
professional and amateur racing with Twang, 
2:18 t-2; Whitney, 2:121-2; Princess Mo- 
quette, 2:081-2; Miss Whitney, 2:071-2, 
which he developed, and Chain Shot, 1 :o6 1-2. 
These horses won important victory after 
victory that gave them big head lines in 
the morning horse column of the daily 
newspapers during their racing period. 

Carrie T., 2:261-4, was the property of 
j. O. Whitton, but she w^as driven in the 
majority of her appearances on the snow- 
path by Mr. Richardson. For two Winters 
this mare defeated the fastest on Boston's 
speed ground and she was always open to 
meet all comers at any time. Mr. Richard- 
son is counted one of Boston's most pro- 
ficient reinsmen, being light-handed and of 
rare judgment when driving in a close race. 
No man knows how to hook a trotter — right — 
better than he, and his stables have always 
been models of neatness. 

Twenty-five years ago he purchased, from 
the David Snow heirs, the Thorndale Stock 
F'arm. in Andover, Ma'^s., which property 
has since developed into a very valuable 
asset, much of it being marketable for build- 
ing purposes. There are 200 acres in the 
estate, which cuts 350 tons of hay (when 
purchased by Mr. Richardson it only cut 
68 tons). On the farm is a good half-mile 
track for the development of the youngsters 
sired h\ the royally-bred stallion, Seumanee, 
by Bingen, 2 :o6 1-4, out of the great brood 
mare, Red Tape, 2:241-4, the dam of four 
trotters in the list, by Prodigal, 2:16. The 
buildings at Thorndale Farm are commo- 
dious, conveniently situated and always kept 
in perfect repair and tidiness. 

Mr. Richardson takes great pride in 
Thorndale, which, before he purchased it, 
can be remembered by old-time horsemen 
as the home of the famous stallion, Daniel 
Lambert. iMr. Richardson can well be de- 
scribed as one man who certainly made good 
with horses. He resides in x\ndover, Mass. 



WALTER B. FARMER 

Walter B. Farmer was born in Arlington, 
Mass., in 1878. and, after attending the local 
schools of his native town, was graduated 
from Goddard Seminary, Barre, Vt. He was 
one of the first members of the Metropolitan 
Driving Club, and of the Gentlemen's Driving 
Club of Boston. He is also a member of the 
B. A. A., Paleface Gun Club, the Exeter Gun 
Club, and the Boston Yacht Club. 

The existence of the Metropolitan Club is 
very probably due to Mr. Farmer. He was 




MOLLY L., 2:25 1-4 

The Dam of This Well-known Speedway Performer is the Prominent Brood Mare, Dreamwold Brownie, 

by Ashland Wilkes. Molly L. is Owned and Driven by George Lovell 



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certainly a live wire in the early races of that 
organization and in shaping its destiny. In 
the Fall of 1904, when the clouds hung low 
and gloomy for the members in being dispos- 
sessed of the clubhouse which they had been 
using on matinee days, it was j\Ir. Farmer 
that succeeded in bringing the iron from the 
fire. It had seemed impossible that there was 
any way of the club surviving, without a home 
for themselves and to shelter their horses, ex- 
cepting that land be purchased near the speed- 
way and a clubhouse and stables erected 
thereon. In the financial condition of the 
club, it having been in existence only a few 
weeks, this solution looked very precarious. 
Mr. Farmer solved the problem, however, by 
issuing invitations to all of the members and 
their friends, who were witnessing the after- 
noon's racing in the cold, out on the sidewalks. 
These invitations were good for use in the 
clubhouse on matinee days until revoked by 
Mr. Farmer. 

Immediately, with the use of the clubhouse 
by the Metropolitan members in this unex- 
pected manner, the owners of the property en- 
tered into arrangements whereby it eventually 
passed to the Metropolitan Club. With the 
ownership of the property and chartering of 
the club, Mr. Farmer became one of the life 
members, and up to the present day, his ac- 
tive work in the early history of the club is 
frequently referred to by the old members. 

Both with the Metropolitan and the Gen- 
tlemen's Driving Club of Boston, Mr. Farmer 
was very prominent in the matinees. He 
owned a number uf horses with speed, but the 
one of them all that stands out prominent is the 
little gelding Fashion, 2:15, not excepting Ar- 
lington, 2 :09 1-2, which he raced successfully 
in the Readville matinee races. The races 
which Fashion, Alice Carr, and Tom Phair 
had to sleigh will never be forgotten. So 
closely were these horses matched in speed 
that excitement ran high as to which of them 
would be the winner. This was true each 
time that they started. 

Mr. Farmer was one of Hie cleverest ama- 
teur reinsmen in New England, and it is 
doubtful if there was his superior in the 
country. He was cool-headed, light-handed, 
game, and nursed a horse along, when tiring 
in a gruelling finish, like a professional driver. 
So capable was Mr. Farmer with the reins 
that he was constantly in demand by owners 
of matinee horses to drive for them in the 
races. 

In the past few years, Mr. Farmer has not 
been seen as much at the speedway as could 
be wished. His pleasant smile and cheering 
word have been missed by Im horde of friends 
and acquaintances and it has been the hope 



that with each return of the matinee season, 
among the list of entries would be seen Mr. 
Farmer's name with a fast trotter. Mr. 
Farmer resides at 75 Sewall Ave., Brookline, 
?\[ass. 



JOHN H. FARNUM 

John H. Farnum was born in Mansfield, 
Conn., in 1862, and attended the public 
schools of his native town. When nineteen 
years of age he came to Boston and secured 
employment as a marketman, and in 1885 he 
went into business for himself, under the 
name of Farnum & Co., 65 Clinton St., deal- 
ers in wholesale fruit and produce. He is still 
located at the same place, under the firm name 
of J. H. Farnum & Son. He is a member of 
the Metropolitan Driving Club and belongs to 
the order of Masons. 

Mr. Farnum has been one of the main sup- 
ports of professional horse racing in New 
England for a number of years. His maxim 
was always to buy the best, price being no 
object so long as he got one that could go out 
and win races. The racing career of Mr. Far- 
luim is very closely identified with that of 
Walter R. Cox, the famous trainer and driver, 
as the latter has had his horses to campaign, 
dating back nearly to his rapid rise in his 
profession. 

Naming over the most prominent that Mr. 
Farnum has owned and had raced in the 
Grand Circuit for large purses and in stake 
races are Joe Jointer, 2:05 1-4; Argot Boy, 
2:0,^ 1-4: Earl, Jr., 2:01 1-2; The Bosun, 
2:05 3-4; Lady Wanetka (2), 2:10, that as a 
two-year-old was second in 2 :o4 3-4, and was 
timed that heat, separately, in 2 :o5 1-4. She 
was sold by Mr. Farnum a few weeks pre- 
vious to this race for $12,500. Branham 
Baughmann, 2:04 1-4, has been well described 
as the "iron horse." This celebrated pacer 
was campaigned year after year, and was al- 
ways there or thereabouts when the money 
was paid ofl^. As Mr. Farnum has well said 
in describing the stallion : "There were other 
pacers having more speed than he, and that 
was the only reason, of course, why he has 
had to take a back seat in some of his races, 
but ior what he could do, he was (if the kind 
that could always be depended upon to de- 
liver his best." Mr. Farnum resides at loi 
Summer Ave., Reading, Mass. 



DANIEL M. HOLMES 

Daniel M. Holmes was born in East Had- 
dam. Conn., in 1845, and attended the schools 
of his native town. He first worked for 
Charles Spencer, of Moodus, in 1863, as a 
blacksmith's helper. In 1866 he opened a 




PRIZi; \\INMN(; lOUR-IN-HAND 
The Property of Jefferson Bradbury, Brookline, Mass. 




THE MONTANA, 2:18 1-2 

One of the Greatest of Half-mile Track Campaigners. Owned and Driven by 

A. I. Nelson 



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blacksmith shop of his own in Madison, 
Conn. At present he is in the family grocery 
business at Saybrook, Conn. He is a member 
of the Metropolitan Driving Club, and is so 
greatly interested in the matinees that he 
comes to Boston to nearly every one held at the 
Charles River Speedway. He has been promi- 
nent in these events with his horses, having 
raced Rob B., 2:213-4; Elsie M., 2:221-4; 
Minturn, 2:16 1-4; Bingen Flower and Major 
Dillard. The last two named, while they have 
no record, are possessed of plenty of speed. 
Mr. Holmes resides in Saybrook, Conn. 



GEORGE LOVELL 

George Lovell, with his brothers, William 
J. and John S., have one of the largest mar- 
ket gardening farms in Watertown that there 
is in the vicinity of Boston. Despite the time 
taken in running so extensive a business, yet 
Mr. Lovell finds time to enjoy himself on 
matinee afternoons at the Charles River 
Speedway, he having been a member of the 
Metropolitan club since its inception. Among 
those that Mr. Lovell has driven in the 
matinee events are John Thomas, 2:15 1-4; 
Avenar M., trial 2:17 1-4; Molly L., 
2 :25 1-4, and some thirt)- others that have 
beaten 2 :30. He is also owner of the well 
known brood-mare, Dreamwold Brownie, 
foaled in 1899, by Ashland Wilkes. This 
mare, though only fifteen years old, has pro- 
duced twelve foals, never having missed a 
single season since bred. Five of her foals 
have trained to beat 2:30, though only one of 
them, Molly L., 2:25 1-4. was put in the list, 
Mr. Lovell taking more pleasure in developing 
and driving them for his own amusement. 
Mr. Lovell resides at 85 Orchard Street. 
Watertown, Mass. 



GEORGE H. HICKS 

George H. Hicks was born in Readsboro, 
Vt., in 1847, and received his education in 
the local scliools of his native town. His 
first work in Boston was in 1865 in the 
grocery store of Charles A. Barker, in Sulli- 
van Square, Charlestown. Two years later 
he started in business for himself, opening a 
small grocerv store in Russell Street, Charles- 
town. Later he went into the milk business, 
where he remained until 1874, when he be- 
gan the handling and training of gentlemen's 
horses, and horses for speed. He is at pres- 
ent interested in the restaurant, bakery, and 
real estate business, his restaurant being at 
180 Portland Street, Boston, with the bakery 
located in Cambridge. He was one of the 
first members of the Metropolitan Driving 
Club, and served on the board of directors. 



He has been a member of the B. A. A. for 
twenty-four years. 

The first horse that Mr. Hicks owned was 
Robinson Crusoe, which he gave a record of 
2:42 in 1874, then counted a very creditable 
performance. Later he got hold of Back- 
man Maid, 2:25 1-4, and she proved a good 
race mare for him by winning a lot of races. 
He sold her to J. Malcolm Forbes for $2,500. 

His next race performer of distinction was 
?ilay Bee, 2 :24. This mare won a seven heat 
race at Hartford, Conn., against the best in 
her class. She was little considered before 
the start of the event, bringing only $50 in 
pools calling for more than S800. INIr. Hicks 
thought well enough of her to have quite a 
number in his pocket. 

He leased old Beacon Park in 1887 and 
was located there until 1896. He sub-leased 
the plant to Wesley P. Balch for the noted 
$io,oro stallion race between Alcryone and 
Xelson, which was the last stallion race Mr. 
Balch gave. While at Beacon Park he had 
meetings in connection with the Eastern Cir- 
cuit, of which he was a member and which 
began at Norfolk, Va., then on to Philadel- 
phia, to Beacon Park, to Mystic Park, to old 
Saugus track, to Providence, to Albany, or 
to old Fleetwood track, in New York. This 
brought the annual meeting at Beacon Park 
the last week in May. New England drivers 
then trained horses to be ready that early in 
the season to take part in the racing events. 

In connection with ^Ir. Hick's regime at 
Beacon was the intense interest taken through 
the sleighing season. It was no unusual hap- 
pening for a thousand hitches to be at the 
])ark on pleasant afternoons. One Winter he 
gave a high cost whip for the trotter stepping 
the fastest mile to sleigh. This was won by 
ex-Mayor Curtis' gelding. Champion, in 
2:31, driven by Jack Trout. Others making 
good time were Carrie T. in 2 :34. and Back- 
man Maid in 2:35. 

A noteworthy sporting event of that period 
was a match race between Merty Downing's 
John L. Sullivan, and a roan gelding owned 
by John Craig, for $1,200. A lot of money 
was waged on the result of the contest, which 
was won by Mr. Craig. 

One of the most consistent horses raced by 
Mr. Hicks, and that likely won him the most 
monev of any he owned, was the pacer, G. O. 
Taylor, 2:151-4. Out of the 113 heats he 
raced in two seasons, he was first or second 
in 106 of them, and only made two breaks, 
caused by being run into by other horses. 
Selling G. O. Taylor, and his net winnings 
on the turf, brought to Mr. Hicks' bank ac- 
count a credit of over $7,000. 

Among others raced with success bv Mr. 




COD ARE (by Cochato), 2 11 1-2 

Coming from the Rear and Winning a Heat Through the Homestretch at Charles 

River Speedway. H. B. Ralston Driving 




Phot,, from Bosloti Globe 

GLENARD, 2:151-4 

Winner of 2:20 Trot at Readville on Oct. 22, 1914. Owned and Driven by 

John W. Coakley 



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Hicks were : Dynamite, 2 :20 3-4 ; IMay Bee, 
2:24; Belle Franklin, 2:28 1-4; Peerless Ben, 
2:26 1-4; Rare Ben, 2:26; Susie Owen, 2:26; 
Steve Maxwell, 2:211-2; News Boy, 2:27; 
Dick, 2:121-2; R. W. S., 2:291-4; Lulu 
Mapes, 2:15 1-4; Ben Wilkes, 2:17 1-4; Mat- 
tie K. Snell, 2:24; Happy Girl, 2:27 1-2; The 
Nun, 2:24 1-4; Maggie G. Middleton, 
2 :20 3-4 ; Blanche Douglas, 2 129 ; Captain 
George, 2:29; Lady Cutts (tr.), 2:21 ; Wilkin, 
2:27 1-2; Centella, 2:21 ; Kitty Morris, 2:30; 
Carleton, 2 :28, etc. 

After leaving Beacon Park Mr. Hicks was 
for two years connected v^'ith his brother, J. 
T)der Hicks, in running Granite State Park, 
Dover, N. H. In the building of Combina- 
tion Park, Medford, Mr. Hicks was one-third 
owner of the property with J. Tyler Hicks and 
Arthur Hicks. Up to the year 1905, Mr. 
Hicks was manager of Combination Park, 
Medford, and gave electric light racing and 
vaudeville shows evenings, during the Sum- 
mer months. Here, too, was the big Elks 
Fair and Carnival. It was at Combination 
Park that Joe Patchen made his then world's 
half-mile record for pacers, of 2:041-4, and 
Cephias set the world's half-mile record for 
trotters at 2:111-4. Mr. Hicks resides at 
Winchester, Mass. 



speed was in his butcher wagon, from which 
he took him and won a $100 handicap race 
at Combination Park. Mr. Nelson resides at 
890 Broadway, West Somerville, Mass. 



A. I. NELSON 

A. I. Nelson was born in Sweden, where 
he received his education. His first work in 
Boston was in the grocery and provision 
store of Charles Porter. In 1903 he started 
in business for himself, opening a grocery 
and provision store in Davis Square, Somer- 
ville, where he is now located. He joined the 
Metropolitan Driving Club in 1906, and was 
one of the earlv members of the Fellsway 
Club. 

Mr. Nelson has always been prominent in 
the matinees of the clubs to which he belongs 
and, with the success that he has had, it is 
peculiar that all of his horses were worked 
every day, excepting the ones they raced, in 
his butcher carts. One afternoon, at Charles 
River Speedway, he carried ofT three blue 
ribbons, winning with Red George, Nancy, 
and Max C. Among the horses he has owned 
were Johnny Wilkes, Jr., Lord Krimnel, 
Independence Boy, Nancy, Charles Hubbard, 
2:12 1-4, winner of a heat at Charles River 
Speedway in i :oi t-2, and of nine blue and 
two red ribbons in eleven races ; Bard L., 
Dand\- Jim, Baron Liege, and the war horse. 
The Montana, 2:18 1-2. Dandy Jim, in the 
season of 19T0, captured the first point cup of 
the Metropolitan Club and, during the series, 
54 trotters competed against him. The first 
that Mr. Nelson knew of Dandy Jim having 



JOHN W. COAKLEY 

One of the leading horsemen of New Eng- 
land is John W. Coakley, and he has had 
experience in all degrees of the sport, hav- 
ing been owner, trainer and driver, manager 
of a racing stable, and conducted public auc- 
tion sales of fast trotters and pacers. 

It was in the early nineties that the fol- 
lowers of the turf first became acquainted 
with Mr. Coakley. He was then trainer for 
Charles Whittemore, owner of the Lookout 
Farm. South Natick, Mass., and had on the 
New England tracks the stallion, Rockaway, 
to which he gave a record of 2:17 1-4. 

In the years of 1897-98 Mr. Coakley held 
a series of speed sales, the first in Walker's 
stable in Portland Street, and later in Wash- 
ington Street, above Northampton Street. 
In the meantime he was manager of a Wash- 
ington Street hotel for a short time, and 
later became interested in the laundry busi- 
ness, entering the employ of Mr. Smith, own- 
er of Star Pointer, i -.^g 1-4, the first pacer 
to beat two minutes. He then ooened the 
Blue Ribbon laundry in Lincoln Place, near 
the Hotel Langham, where he is now located 
in business. 

While Mr. Coakley has owned a number of 
fast trotters and pacers in recent years, yet 
his best trotter was Belvasia, 2:061-4, a big 
winner down the Grand Circuit, and his 
fastest pacer was Aileen Wilson, 2:021-2. 

Mr. Coakley is known as a clever reins- 
man. Walter Cox thinks well enough of 
his management in the sulky to have often 
secured him to drive races for him. At 
Cleveland he won a rich stake for the 
Dover, N. H., driver with Esther W., 
2 :g6 1-4. In the Hanks' Circuit in Maine, 
in 1913, he won two $5,000 stakes with 
Baring. 2:121-2, and got second money in 
another stake. In 1914 he campaigned his 
own trotter, Glenard, 2:151-4, by Moko, 
with success. Mr. Coakley resides in Dor- 
chester, Mass. 



HANCE B. RALSTON 

Hance B. Ralston was born in Nova Scotia 
in 1865, and attended the public schools of his 
native town. His first work in Boston was in 
the employ of a Mr. King, blacksmith, in 
1885. He opened a blacksmith shop of his 
own in 1896 in Brighton, where he is still 
located. Later he added to his duties the 
training and driving of horses, and now has 




L. FRED SANBORN 
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charge of the new AletropoHtan Club stable 
at the speedway. 

Mr. Ral.ston was one of the first members 
of the Metropolitan Club, and has been 
prominent in its matinee affairs. Besides his 
amateur racing. Mr. Ralston each season takes 
a few weeks in visiting the local half-mile 
tracks with a select string of trotters and 
pacers, and usually with success. He is 
known as an expert in the development of 
young speed, and is partial, himself, in getting 
hold of a colt, and then watching him improve. 

Among the horses Air. Ralston has de- 
veloped and driven to records are the follow- 
ing; Ella Hal, 2:151-2; Miss Adbell. 
2:061-4; Ethel Direct, 2:113-4; Luzaro, 
2:181-4; Tony G., 2:181-4; Lord Ouex. 
2:101-2; Susie Star, 2:211-2; Genevieve, 
2:181-4; Yates, 2-171-2: Little Bill. 
2:20 1-4; Wavelite, 2:24 1-4; Pee Wee, 
2:281-4; Nelson, 2:251-4; iMy Chance. 
2:171-4. etc. Mr. Ralston resides in Brigh- 
ton, ]\rass. 



L. FRED SANBCRN 

L. Fred S.\nborx. now of Medford, Mass., 
and until recently an active member of the 
Metropolitan and Fellsway Driving Clubs, 
was born in Danvers, Mass., in 1879. His 
father, in Fred's boyhood days, generally had 
a road horse, but when Fred was about fifteen 
his father bought Dinah Wilkes, 2 :33, a trot- 
ter who could hold her own in a brush to either 
dirt or snow. Soon after her purchase the 
Salem News "Man About Town" quoted May- 
or Peterson, of Salem, as telling his friends 
how a boy with a black mare beat him on 
the Danvers road. 

Later, the Salem News, in a front page ar- 
ticle, told of a runaway through Danvers 
Square, in which a Concord buggy was over- 
turned on top of a boy who clung to the reins 
after being pulled to his feet by the runaway 
horse, righted the buggy with one hand, suc- 
ceeded in stopping the horse, and drove leis- 
urely back through the square as if nothing 
had happened. 

Fred's first horse of his own was a road 
mare who pulled two men to a buggy, a sur- 
veyed mile, on the road in three minutes. 
Next he bought an erratic green trotter, which 
Fred couldn't keep on a trot, but Knapp 
Forshner drove a quarter on the back-stretch 
of Old Mystic in 32 1-2 seconds. Then 
Colonel, 2:18 1-4, a sore-toed pacer, was pur- 
chased, and on the first snowfall, Fred, in :i 
newly purchased Perrin sleigh, started for 
the Charles River Speedway on a Saturday 
afternoon all by his lonesome, the result be- 
ing featured in Sunday's Boston Herald, "Un- 



known young man with a horse, later identi- 
fied as Colonel, 2:181-4, cleans up all com- 
ers on Charles River snowpath." 

Colonel was pensioned for life and Robin- 
bird, 2 :29 1-4, purchased from Albert H. Mer- 
rill, the Danvers speed merchant, a boyhood 
neighbor of Fred's, as was also purchased 
Billy J., 2:17 1-4, Fred C, 2:11 1-4, etc. Billy 
J. won three cups for Fred, stepping the half- 
mile track at Combination Park in 1:05, and 
the Charles River Speedway a fast heat, one 
season, in i :02, and winning the fastest two 
heats in another series in i :02 1-4 and i :o2 1-2. 
Fred C. 2:111-4, record over a half-mile 
track, was bought at a Chicago sale, at a long 
price, as he had trotted the fastest mile in a 
race over any half-mile track in the country, 
the previous season. However, Fred C. 
proved to be a better mile horse than a half 
mile one. and he was sold to go to England, 
where he made a new trotting record for that 
country and raced with fair success some 
twenty-four races there, the following season, 
against hoppled pacers. 

With Luther Moko, 2:15 3-4, Fred won two 
four-heat races, one five-heat race, also a red 
ribbon at the Park Riding School Horse Shov/- 
all within two weeks, and then he was sold 
soon after. Dr. Chase, 2:10 1-4, was a steady 
going trotter and was never beaten over a 
head by the best trotters around Boston. Oth- 
ers, either owned or matineed by Fred, were 
Kelpa, 2:263-4; Mystic, 2:221-4; Chestnuts, 
2:24 1-2; Maud C, 2:13 1-4; Reuben L., 
2 :23 1-4 ; Freda, 2 :29 1-2 ; and Star King. 

Fred now acknowledges having been con- 
nected with a "Ringing Case," as when he 
bought Fred C, 2:11 1-4, he matineed him as 
plain Fred, named after himself, as he said, 
until Editor Trott, who knew the horse on 
sight, gave him away in the Boston Globe. 

The last time Fred was seen in public hold- 
ing the ribbons was when he, by request, drove 
Luther P., a noted pttller, who had been beaten 
the previous week at Charles River Speedway 
viith a "Professional" up, halves in i :20, but 
whom Fred piloted to a popular and long shot 
victory in time as fast as i :i6. over a horse 
generally capable of stepping in 1:12, and au- 
other contestant who could always go ni 1:14 
to 1:15. The following week, under similar 
conditions, but with another driver behind 
Luther P., Luther was badly beaten by the 
same horses, as he materially missed Fred's 
reinsmanship, and Luther's opponents missed 
Fred's musical voice. 

Fred, after four years of pleasurable sport 
with the aforementioned horses, now says, 
"Never again !" and has given up horses en- 
tirelv on account of the condition on Boston 




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Champion Pacer (Fall Series 1914) at Charles River Speedway. Owned and Driven by 

Franli M. Burke 



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EDITH DIRECT, 2:11 3-4 
Extensively Campaigned Both in Professional and Amateur Races in 1914. Owned 
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and suburban roads. During his horse career 
he had various chances to serve as an officer 
of the two matinee clubs to which he belonged, 
but the only office he ever accepted was thai 
of vice-president of the Fellsway Club ; but 
he has also been named for several years 
among the vice-presidents of the Metropolitan 
Driving Club. 

We feel that Fred's heretofore unpublished 
advice to those still in the matinee sport may 
be of value. He says, "The life of the mati- 
nees today depends on securing new horses as 
often as possible, trading or new purchases, 
make news and arouse new interest in own- 
ers, drivers and the public. That's the reason 
I was always ready to either buy or sell and, 
in the very short space of four years, owned 
thirteen horses and two colts, most of them 
one at a time." 

Fred will also be remembered among horse- 
men, and particularly among Cox and Coxs 
Army at Dover, N. H., as the imported base- 
ball pitcher who pitched Cox and his Army 
to a lo-inning victory in a ball game with a 
team of Doverites, for which Fred got due 
credit in Dover and Boston papers. 

FRANK M. BURKE 

Frank M. Burke was born in Rowley, 
Mass., in 1878, and was graduated from the 
Newburyport High School. In 1898 he be- 
gan the manufacturing of heels at Ipswich, 
Mass., where he is still located. He was one 
of the early members of the Metropolitan 
Driving Club and he often brings his star 
trotters and pacers to compete in the mati- 
nees at the Charles River Speedway. 

Mr. Burke is the owner of one of the l^est 
racing and matinee stables in New England. 
Me drives his own horses in most instances, 
thus deriving a great deal of sport by so do- 
ing. Among the horses that he has owned 
are: My Star,' 2:03 3-4; Miss DeForest, 
2:05 1-4; Reliance, 2:11 1-4; Miss Adbell. 
2:06 1-4; The Alderman, 2:16 1-2; Higgins, 
2:16 3-4; Troas, 2:12 1-4; Morine, 2:09 1-4. 
etc. He is also the owner of the widely 
known Fatherland Stock Farm in Byfield, 
Mass., where he is engaged in breeding, 
raising, and the development of trotters. He 
has on his establishment many highly-bred 
and fast record mares, which he is breeding 
to the best stallions. The result will be that 
in a few vears Mr. Burke will have the en- 
joyment of driving in races colts of his own 
breeding. .Mr. llurke resides at Ipswich, 
Mass. 



town and in Rochester, X. H. His first 
work v.as in 1888, for his brother, A. J. 
Furbush, in the grocery business. He started 
in business for himself in 1904, running a 
boarding stable and real estate business at 
66 Davis Street, West Newton. He was one 
of the first members of the Metropolitan 
Driving Club, and was very active in induc- 
ing new members to join. 

^Ir. Furbush has always taken a leading 
part in the matinee racing at Charles River 
Speedway. Among the most prominent 
trotters and pacers he raced were Fred H., 
2:12 1-4; Jay Kay, 2:15 1-2, winner of a five- 
mile race on the ice at Montreal : Luc\- 
Posey. 2:103-4; Ethel Direct, 2:113-4; 
Alattie March. 2:141-4; Dart, 2:081-4. 
King Regent, 2:16 1-4; Oracle Baron, trotting, 
2 :i8 1-2, pacing, 2:21 1-4; Bon View, 2:15 1-4 : 
Aliss .\dbell, 2:061-4: Edwin S.. 2:08; 
Outcast, 2:17 1-4, who was not beaten on the 
Dorchester Speedway for two years. 

Mr. l-'urbush and his brother, W. ]., had 
a niiist interesting race to sleigh one after- 
noon, a number of years back, on the New- 
ton Boulevard. While all that w'as waged 
was a bushel of clams, the loser to be at the 
expense of a clambake for the friends of 
both parties, yet the event aroused a lot of 
interest in the Xewtnns. ]\Ir. Furbush, 
named Fred H.. while W. J., nameci ?i[azie 
Sidney. After five red-hot heats Fred H. se- 
cured the honors, and there was a bi.g cele- 
bration that evening, .A.. C. Furbush being 
the leader. 

Along with matinee racing Mr. Furbush 
has also been greatly interested in profession- 
al racing and, usually, started a horse capable 
of getting its share of the purse. In 1914, 
he had campaigned the pacing mare, Ethel 
Direct, who, in nine days won four races, 
and in eighteen days secured seven second 
moneys. In that year she started altogether 
in twenty-two races. Mr. Furbush •-esides 
at 66 Davis Street, West Newton, M.iss. 



A. C. FURBUSH 

.\. C. Furbush was born in Lebanon. Me., 
and attended the local schnds of his native 



BENJAMIN POPE 

Benjamin Pope, of the large business firm 
of Curtis & Pope Lumber Co., 744 Albany 
-Street, Boston, has been strongly identified 
with the light harness horse. He is a life 
member of the Metropolitan Driving Club, 
was one of the early members of the Gentle- 
men's Driving Club of Boston, and also be- 
longs to the Brookline Country Club and the 
Algonquin Club. 

One of the first trotters owned and raced by 
Mr. Pope was Mrs. Jack, 2 :24 1-4, which since 
has become a great brood mare. He then 
purchased Miss Pratt, 2:171-4, which, after 
being campaigned, both professionally and on 




MISS MARGARET WINSLOW POPE DRIVING "MADEMOISELLE" 
A Consistent Horse Show Blue Ribbon Winner 




MISS PRATT, 2:17 1-4 BILLIE TAYLOR 

A Head and Head Race Through the Homestretch at Readville. Miss Pratt Owned and Driven by 

Benjamin Pope 



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the amateur turf by Mr. Pope, was put to 
breeding, and she is now one of the most 
noted brood mares in the country. She has 
produced for Mr. Pope The Leading Lady 
(3), 2:07, the world's record for a three-year- 
old trotter when made; The Minute Man, 
2:21 1-4; Chorus Girl, 2:20; The Understudy, 
2:26 1-2; The British Soldier (3), 2:17; and 
Friendly Chief, yearling trial of 35 seconds 
for a quarter-mile. A daughter, too, of Miss 
Pratt produced DenaU (i), 2:291-4, and 
which in 1914, when two years old, worked a 
mile in 2:12 1-4. He also owned the stallion. 
King Peter, 2 :20 3-4. 

Mr. Pope has a stock farm in Concord, 
Mass., widely known by the name of Stony- 
meade Farm, which comprises 150 acres. 
This establishment contains everything re- 
quired on a gentleman's model farm. AH of 
the buildings are spacious, the soil fertile, and 
the adjoining country noted for its beauty. 
Mr. Pope enjoys himself immensely at Stony- 
meade. 

Miss Margaret Winslow Pope, the daugh- 
ter of Mr. Pope, is, too, interested in horses, 
but her preference is the high actor and 
splendid saddler. With Mademoiselle she has 
won blue ribbons and cups at numerous horse 
shows. E.xperts agree that this mare is in a 
class by herself. It is said that her sire was 
Bingen, 2 :o6 1-4. At any rate, she is capable 
of showing 2 :20 speed hitched to a wagon. 

Another blue ribbon winner for Miss Pope 
is the handsome saddle mare, Virginia, which 
never was defeated in the show ring. She is 
up to trotting a 2 :40 gait, and, hitched double 
with Mademoiselle, the two make a spanking 
team. Mr. Pope resides in Concord, Mass. 

JEFFERSON BRADBURY 

Jefferson Br.^dbuky was born in Houghton, 
Me., in 1859. He attended the local schools 
until sixteen years of age, when he started 
out for himself, and has never since been in 
the employ of any man. In 1893 he satisfied 
himself that Brookline, Mass., was a good 
place in which to open a modern, up-to-date 
boarding- and sale stable, and he constructed 
the one where he is now located, at 56 \\'in- 
chester Street. He joined the Metropolitan 
Driving Club in the first year of its ex- 
istence, and is, too, a member of the Order 
of Masons. 

Mr. Bradbury has bought and sold up- 
wards of io,coo horses, among his customers 
having been C. R. Milliken, of the Glen 
House, White Mountains, and the Ricker 
Bros., of Poland Springs. He also assisted 
James Sanborn, of the firm of Chase & 
Sanborn, Boston, in starting his prominent 
stock farm at Poland, Me. Most of the 



lirood mares on the farm were purchased by 
2\ir. Bradbury in Chicago. 

Among the fast trotters and pacers that 
have passed through Mr. Bradbury's hands 
are Queen, 2:311-4, one of the stars of 
thirty years ago ; Bonnie Doone, 2 :38, that 
he, thirty-two years ago, sold for $1,050 to 
E. D. Morgan, of New York; Bloodmont, 
2:321-4, which twenty-seven years ago won 
a big stallion race at Presque Isle, Me., and 
was then the real "cock of the walk" in that 
section ; Dr. Kilburn, that, as a two-year-old, 
made the state of Maine record of 2:31 1-4; 
John Moore, that, as a three-year-old, made 
the state of Maine record of 2 -.22 3-/ 
Almah, by Cochato, out of the great brood 
mare. Regent's Last, and, as a four-year- 
old, trotted a mile in 2:10, and a half in 
1:01. at Readville; Stanley C, 2:141-4, 
counted the best race horse in Maine in his 
day, and who w^on second money in a nine- 
heat race, at Lewiston, being first or second in 
each of the heats ; Wotan, 2 :iy 3-4, that he sold 
for $5,000; Mars, 2:133-4, the stallion that 
has been siring speed at Presque Isle, Me. ; 
Lord Arley, with a trial of 2:101-2, for 
which $5,000 was refused. 

The only horse that Mr. Bradbury ever 
matineed was Tony D., 2:141-4, which he 
raced at the Charles River Speedway and 
won heats in 1:03 1-4; Pot Roast, 2:21 1-4. 
which he sold to go to Philadelphia, where 
he earned a matinee record of i :oo. Mr. 
Bradbury resides at 21^ Harvard Street, 
Brookline. Mass. 



GEORGE A. GRAVES 

George A. Graves was born in Newton, 
Mass., in 1852, and received his education in 
the schools of that city. In 1869 he w-ent to 
work as clerk for his father, Chester H. 
Graves, distiller of alcohol at 35 Hawkins 
St., Boston. In 1873 he became a member 
of the firm, the title having been changed to 
C. H. Graves & Sons. Mr. Graves was one 
of the original members of the Metropolitan 
Driving Club, the Gentlemen's Driving Club 
of Boston, and the Fellsway Driving Club. 
In the Gentlemen's Driving Club of Boston, 
he filled the position of director, a member 
of the executive committee, and president of 
the club in 1914. In the Metropolitan Club, 
he served on the board of directors and as 
chairman of the executive committee. 

In the organizing of the ^Metropolitan Driv- 
ing Club, ^ilr. Graves was made chairman pro 
tem., in the very first meeting held at Young's 
Hotel, in the bringing of the horsemen of Bos- 
ton together for the object of combining into 
a club. He has always been very prominent 
in its aft'airs, and to his excellent business 



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Winner of Two Blues and One Red at Brighthelmstone Horse Show, June 5, 1914 




LINA PRUE (Matinee Record), 2:18 1-4 
Besides Speed a Perfect Type of Gentleman's Driver. Owned and Driven by George H. Hicks 



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judgment can well be ascribed the prosperity 
of the club. 

In the racing he has always been one of 
the leaders, and it has been an established fact 
that in any race in which he had horses his 
opponents would have to step fast in order 
to carry off the blue ribbon. 

Among those that he owned and drove 
in the matinees are Dick, 2:121-2: Ben 
Wilkes, matinee record of 2:15; Lulu Alapes, 
2:15 1-4; Miss Leander, 2:25 1-4; Lina Prue. 
matinee record of 2:181-4; EHska, matinee 
record of 2:20; The Keepsake, 2:18 1-4; G. O. 
Taylor, 2:151-4; Joe Bassett, 2:231-4; The 
Only One, 2 :20 1-2 ; Uncle Ed, matinee record 
of 2 :24 ; Tom Gillig, yearling record of 
2 -37 3-4 ; Mack Mack, 2 :o8 ; and Bronson, 
2:12. 

Of all these horses there are none that equal 
the trotting gelding, Bronson. This gelding 
had been campaigned for several years by 
Henry Titer with varying success. He 
was known to have a lot of speed, but after 
winning a heat, he did not seem to be capa- 
ble of getting the necessary three heats to 
head the summary and, for that reason, had 
lieen counted a trifle "soft." 

Bronson was finally sold at auction in New 
York and, early in 1913. his new owner raced 
him on the New York Speedway, during that 
Spring winning with him the President's cup 
by beating all the best trotters in New York 
City. 

He was sold to Mr. Graves in August of 
that year and brought to Boston, where he 
was raced in the matinees of the Gentlemen's 
Driving Club at Readville for three weeks, 
and then won a race to wagon for the cham- 
pionship of Boston. After this he was taken 
to the Charles River Speedway and started \n 
eight races during the Fall season, all of 
which he won, trotting a mile over the half- 
mile track in 2:15 1-4. hiiched to a cart. On 
this day the track was in far from its best con- 
dition, being soggy from recent rains. 

Bronson was carefully wintered at Read- 
ville by E. D. Either and was entered in the 
Spring races of the Short Ship Circuit at 
Combination Park, Medford, at Haverhill, 
Worcester, and South Framingham. At Ha- 
verhill he won one heat from Margaret Drui- 
en in 2:131-4. In these races he won first 
money once, at \\''orcester, and was three 
times second. At South Framingham he made 
Earlwood L. turn the track in 2:12 1-4 to beat 
him by a neck. He was then taken to the 
Charles River Speedway and raced once, low- 
ering the track record for trotters to 2:14 1-2, 
to cart. 

His next start was at Alonroe, N. Y., on 
August II. in the 2:24 trotting stake of 



Si, 000, which he won in straight heats in 
2:15 1-2, 2:14 1-2, and 2:14. He then raced at 
Goshen, N. Y., in the 2 :20 trot for amateur 
drivers, it being a stake valued at $2,000. This 
event he also won, trotting his second heat 
in 2:12 and the last one in 2:123-4, the final 
quarter in 32 seconds. The following week 
he raced at Middletown, N. Y., in the 2:24 
class, purse $1,000, winning in 2:13 1-4, the 
track record for trotters. 

He was then shipped to the Rockingham 
Fair, Salem, N. H., and on September i, ni 
the 2:17 trot, purse $500, he gathered in first 
money without losing a heat, the final one be- 
ing in 2:12. From there he went to Hart- 
ford, Conn., and on September 7, he won a 
$2,000 stake very easily in straight heats, the 
fastest in 2:133-4. His last professional start 
was at Brockton, on October i, where he won 
the 2:iC) trotting stake of $1,000, the fastest 
heat in 2 :i4 1-4. 

The record of Bronson, under the very 
clever reinsmanship of Mr. Graves, was 
nothing short of sensational. Many experts 
of horses were inclined to jibe Mr. Graves in 
his purchase of Bronson, but the proof has 
been that he was the best purchase that could 
possibly have been made, the little trotter be- 
ing fearless, easy to drive, always on a trot, 
and honest as the day is long. It was pre- 
dicted the season of 1914 that he had speed 
enough to turn a good mile track, like Colum- 
bus, in 2:06 or 2:07, and in 1915 the oppor- 
tunity may be given of seeing how near true 
this prediction may be. 

In his ten professional starts, in 1914, 
Bronson was seven times first and three times 
second, his total winnings amounting to the 
neat sum of $4,395. This was certainly a won- 
derful fun horse for a gentleman driver like 
Mr. Graves, for outside of the money that he 
earned, it was very likely that his owner, if 
asked, would say that he had earned in solid 
enjoyment four times that amount. Mr. 
Graves resides in Newton. Mass. 



GEORGE F. LEONARD 

George F. Leonard, one of Boston's most 
successful business men, first became inter- 
ested in the trotting horse about twenty-five 
vears ago, and soon after was made president 
of the Bennington (Vt.) Driving Club, and 
drove a horse to victory at their first meeting. 
.\ few years after this he was prime mover in 
the- organization of the Gentlemen's Driving 
Club of Boston, and served that club on the 
i>oard of directors and the racing committee 
for a number of seasons. During this time, 
^Ir. Leonard won a large number of silver 
cups and numerous blue ribbons with sucli 
good trotters as Chimes Bell, 2:09 3-4; Fred 




MISS MARY MURPHY and "ROYAL CHARLIE" 
Winner of Twenty-three Blue Ribbons at Prominent Horse Shows 




HIGH ROLLER and HIGH LADY 

Prize and Blue Ribbon Winners, Either Double or Tandem. 

Owned and Driven by M. F. Murphy 




GEORGE G. HAI.L 
His Many Matched Pairs of Fast Trotters Have Made Ilini Famous in Horse Circles 




KARI,\ BIRD. JR., 2:11 1-2 
Winner of Readville Race, to Wagon, in 2:113-4. One of Few Pacers to Defeat Kentuckv 
Owned and Driven by George Robinson Hall 




1 Boston HeraM 

GI.ORI.\ \VILKE.S (Matinee Record), 2:18 1-4 

Winrer of Fcur Silver Cups and Club Trotting Championship One .Season at Readville Track. 

Owned and Driven by Frank Gardner Hall 



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Ames, 2:20 3-4. matinee record 2:15 1-4; 
Lucky Jim, 2:20 1-4; Charley King, 
2:14 1-4; Pierpont Morgan (2), 2:27 3-4, and 
a half-mile matinee record of i :o2 ; Southern 
Spy, matinee record of i :o5 1-2, and Belhun. 
2 :23. One season Mr. Leonard won every 
start he made with Pierpont Morgan in the 
Readville matinees. 

On August 23, 1905, Mr. Leonard won a 
hard fought race with Chimes Bell, and gave 
her a matinee wagon record of 2:14 1-4, 
which was the fastest mile to wagon by a 
green trotter made that year. For his victor\' 
he w-as given a large set of tulnilar chime 
bells. 

Mr. Leonard was one of the first members 
of the Metropolitan Driving Club, and soon 
after joined the Dorchester and Fellsway 
Clubs, W'here he was active and a help in 
many ways. He has been on the board of 
directors, and served on other committees 
in the Metropolitan Driving Club. 

It has always been a great pleasure to Mr. 
Leonard to drive that good, all-around road 
horse, Southern Spy, that won all of his races 
the first season out. and has to his credit a 
large number of silver cups that he captured 
in the show ring. For six years he was a 
constant winner of blue ribbons and, in 19 14, 
he was as sound as a colt. 

It was for a number of years Mr. Leon- 
ard's opinion that early racing over the 
;Massachusetts half-mile tracks would be 
beneficial to horse owners and the breeders 
of the light harness horse, but he was not able 
to l:>ring this about until 1914 when, with the 
assistance of Justin Edwards and Samuel B. 
Hastings, the Bay State Short Ship Circuit 
was started with Mr. Leonard president, 
and it proved an unqualified success. At the 
meeting of the Circuit Stewards at Young's 
Hotel, Boston, on November 18, 1914, Mr. 
Leonard, not desiring the presidency another 
term, was made one of the executive com- 
mittee in the continuation of the circuit for 
the year 1915. I\Ir. Leonard resides in 
Brookline. ^tass. 

JOHN L. OILMAN 

John L. C.ilm.xx was born in Newfields, 
N. H.. in 1859, and was graduated from the 
schools of Exeter, N. H. His first work in 
Boston was in the wholesale dry goods de- 
partment of Jordan Marsh Co. in 1878. In 
t886 he opened a hotel and cafe, at Revere 
Beach, and continued in this business for 
iiimself for fourteen years. 

He has been an honorary member of the 
I\[etropolitan Driving Club since its organi- 
zation, and the success of the club is largely 
due to the efforts of Mr. Gilman, as he has 



been superintendent of the Charles River, up- 
per division, Metropolitan I'ark Commission 
since 1899, which in part takes in the Charles 
River Speedway. Constant vigilance, with 
good judgment, made the straightaway 
soeedway one of the very fastest in the whole 
country. 

The half-mile track was constructed by Mr. 
Gilman having his employees dump ashes 
over the marsh and afterward the loam top- 
soil, that completed the track, was put on. 

There was some opposition on the part of 
the Metropolitan Park Commissioners in 
building a half-mile track, they believing that 
the expense would be too much for them to 
burden the taxpayers with. C. H. Belledeu, 
then president, had explained his plan of the 
half-mile circle going between the speedway 
proper and the river. After visiting the 
Aletropolitan Park Commissioners, Mr. Belle- 
tleu informed Mr. Gilman of what was their 
decision, to which the latter replied: 

"You leave that to me, Mr. Belledeu, we 
have tons and tons of ashes, and I will make 
that plot of land the dumping place for these 
ashes. It will take only a short time before 
the ground required will be filled in and then 
the Metropolitan Park Commissioners can 
look it over and see what a slight expense 
will put on an additional cover of loam and 
complete the half-mile track." 

What happened and how it came out, tlie 
members of the club now well know. The 
half-mile track is one of the best outdoors. 
;ind is greatly enjoyed by the horse-loving 
public of Greater Boston. Mr. Gilman has 
always been alert in keeping in per- 
fect condition the straightaway track, the 
half-mile course, the horse show ring, and all 
of the other appointments at the speedway. 

Mr. Gilman is a member of the Masons. 
Pequossett Lodge, Watertown, and of the 
Neptune Lodge of Odd Fellows, Revere. He 
resides at 52^ Western Ave., Brighton, ^lass. 



FRANK G. TROTT 

Frank G. Trott was born in Council 
Blufl's. la., in 1871. After receiving his 
education, he entered partnership with his 
father, Lemuel G., in the publishing of a turf 
paper, .Spirit of the Hub, where he remained 
from 1889 to 1896. In the Spring of the 
latter year he went on the Boston Globe as 
assistant to Allen Lowe, and became turf 
editor, with complete charge of that depart- 
ment, on January i, 1898, where he has since 
remained. 

Mr. Trott has been a valuable aid in pro- 
moting the horse interests of New England 
with his clear cut and concise accounts of the 
racing and of the men prominent in its 





JOHN H. JEWETT 

First Presiding Judge at Charles River 

Speedway; Helped to Organize 

Metropolitan Club; Turf Writer 

on Boston Herald 



LEMUEL G. TROTT 

Who Helped Organize Metropolitan Club 

and Was First Programmer 






FRANK G. TROTT 
Turf Writer on Boston Globe 



EARL W. FARNl-M 
Turf Writer on Lvnn Item 



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affairs. He is a devoted admirer of the light 
harness horse and enjoys nothing better than 
spending his spare time at the race tracks, 
working out some of the fast horses. In the 
Winter season, Mr. Trott is an enthusiast of 
ice-boat racing, he having owned some of the 
fastest boats that have raced on the ponds 
north of Boston. Mr. Trott resides at 
\\'inchester, Mass. 

LEMUEL G. TROTT 

Lejiuel G. Trott was born in Woolwich, 
^le., in 1844. After attending Kent's Hill 
Seminary, he was graduated from Bates 
College. He started tlie Spirit of the Hub, a 
weekly turf paper, in 1887, a publication that 
was much appreciated by the horsemen dur- 
ing its years of existence. With the dispos- 
ing of the Spirit of the Hub, j\Ir. Trott was 
associated with several of the Boston daily 
papers, gathering the local turf news of im- 
portance. 

Mr. Trott was one of the instigators of the 
Metropolitan Driving Club, his series of 
articles arousing the local horsemen to the 
first gatherings held in Young's Hotel. It 
was he who engaged the room at that 
hostelry for the initial meeting m the organ- 
ization of the club. After the club was 
started he was an earnest worker in securing 
members, and was the first official pro- 
grammer in the matinees at Charles River 
Speedway. 

Mr. Trott met his death in a railroad 
accident in 1908, and his sudden demise was 
a distinct shock to his horde of friends and 
acquaintances throughout New England. He 
had spent nearly a lifetime in the interests 
of the trotter and pacer, and had seen the 
sport and the breeding farms grow to one of 
the most important industries of this section 
of the country, the trouble days of racing 
liaving just begun when his death occurred. 



EARL W. FARNUM 

Of the newspapermen who have been 
closely connected v>-ith various activities of 
horsemen and who are still enthusiastic turf 
writers, Earl W. Farnum, sporting writer of 
the Lynn Item, the largest daily in Essex 
county, is among the more prominent. Nearly 
five years in Lynn has made something of a 
Bay Stater of him. but he is a native of 
Providence, R. I., and for many years was 
the leading sporting writer of "Little Rhody," 
as sporting editor of the Providence Tele- 
gram and the Tribune which succeeded it. 
During that period he was a familiar con- 
tributor to the American Horse Breeder and 
other turf papers. He has a rich store of 



memories of road racing in Providence ana 
Narragansett Park Grand Circuit sport. 

In 1910 Mr. Farnum published the New 
England Horse Journal in Providence. It 
was a lively weekly while racing flourished 
at Narragansett Park, Hillsgrove, and 
\\'oonsocket and, when forced to succumb 
because of the changed conditions, it re- 
funded every dollar advanced. 

In Lynn Mr. Farnum has done much to 
kee]-) interest alive in the horse. In 1912 his 
work as secretary of the Lynn Work-Horse 
Parade helped materially in the turning out 
of more than 500 horses, the biggest parade 
of the kind New England has ever had, with 
the exception of the Boston parades. 

In 1913 he was made matchmaker of the 
Lynn Driving Club's championship matinees, 
at Rockdale Park, and the season was one of 
the most interesting and successful that club 
had enjoyed for some time. For three years 
he had served in the judges' stand, witliout 
missing a meeting. In recognition of his 
services, he was made the third honorary 
member of that club. Similar honors have 
l)een conferred upon him by other clubs, the 
first being by the Providence Driving Club a 
dozen years ago. 

Over a period of 15 yeprs, ]\Ir. Farnum has 
been a familiar figure in the press box and 
among the "regulars" of New England rac- 
ing. Before that time he had become an en- 
thusiastic road driver in Elmira, N. Y., while 
studying law with a relative, and learned some 
of the angles of the sport by association with 
such horsemen as Harry Hersey, since 
famous as the pilot of Dan Patch, Jud Par- 
sons, B. T. Birney, Lish Gulick and other 
horse spirits of the Chemung Valley. This 
knowledge was of value when he entered 
newspaper work, as the racing at Narragan- 
sett Park, of that period, had no difficulty 
in being recognized in Providence as the 
"sport of kings." 



CYRUS C. MAYBERRY 

Cyrus C. ]\I.\vp.erry was born in Casco, 
IMe., in 1851. After passing the common 
schools of his native town, he was graduated 
from the Bridgton (^le.) Academy, and the 
Brj-ant & Stratton Business College of Bos- 
ton. His first work in Boston was in 1872 
as accountant for C. R. Richardson & 
Co., Water Street. Later he was employed 
in the law office of Judge G. A. Upton, and 
was admitted to the bar in 1882, since which 
time he has conducted a law and real estate 
office at 28 School Street, Boston. 

Mr. Mayberry was one of the first mem- 
bers of the Metropolitan Driving Club. In 
the early days of the club he was greatly 




E. L. SHARPNECK 

Well-Known Member of Metropolitan Club and 

a Crack Bowler 





JOHN W. CAWLEY 
One of Metropolitan Club's Silent Workers 



KNAPP FORSHNER 
Leading Trainer and Driver in Greater Boston 



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interested in iiKlucing horsemen to join. He 
has served on the executive committee, board 
of directors, and was chairman of the racing 
committee in 1913-14. 

^Ir. Mayljerry has been closely identified 
in the history of both the Saugus and Mystic 
tracks. The former he purchased, in the Fall 
of 1883, in company with three other men. 
He employed J. A. Snow for secretary and 
they gave race meetings for four years. He 
sold the track to (). S. Roberts in 1889, but 
bought it back a year later, being one of a 
syndicate of ten Lynn men. Soon after he 
sold the racing plant to George A. Engleman 
and others, owners of Brighton Beach race 
course. 

In 1903 Mr. Alayberry headed a syndicate 
of land owners and purchased the famous 
Mystic Park, in Medford, from Horace 
Willis and the widow of Thomas J. Alex- 
ander. The land was cut into building lots, 
and in 1914 it was practically covered with 
dwellings, with rhe exception of tlie back- 
stretch of the race track. 

j\[r. Mayberry was owner of the Island 
View Farm. Whitefield, X. H., and later 
bought the Mayberr}- Farm in Casco. Me., 
where the well known stallion William 
.\lbert, 2:16 T-2. heads his stud of brood 
mares. He has bred, had developed and 
raced, Ben \\'ilkes. 2:17 1-4; Domino, 
2:16 1-2; Tonuny L., 2:19 1-4; Bertmont, 
2:181-4: Dr. Billings, 2:181-4: Cleoberta, 
2:201-2: Prince Albert, 2:241-4: Leoberta. 
2:26 1-2: Mordica, 2:20 1-4: Zephyr, 
2:21 3-4; Frank Albert, 2:22 1-4: Montbert, 
2:22; Xancy Bingen, 2:15 1-4: Cassandra, 
2:24 1-2, and more than ico others. Mr. 
Mayberry resides at 9 Stetson Street, Brook- 
line, ]\Iass. 



E. L. SHARPNECK 

E. I.. .'-^iiARPNECK was born in Parker,-- 
burg, W. \'a.. in 1855. He attended tli-; 
schools in Council Bluffs. Iowa, completing 
his studies with a thorough course in mechani- 
cal euEjineering. He started in business for 
himself as an inventor and mechanical engi- 
neer, spending several years in Chicago. In 
1900 he came to Boston and located in the 
Tremont Building, and in the past few years 
he has had a suite of offices at 88 Broad St. 
]\Ir. Sharpneck is known throughout the coun- 
try in his chosen field of mechanical engineer- 
ing and as an inventor. He has placed on the 
market many patents that are in constant use. 
His anti-friction roller bearing is being taken" 
up by the prominent railroads of the United 
States and Canada. 

Air. Sharpneck joined the Metropolitan 
Club in 1914, and while he has owned several 



high-class driving horses, yet he has not 
invested in speed horses to the present 
time. Despite that, however, he is frequently 
seen at the speedway on the days of matinee 
racing, and it is predicted by his friends that 
the time is short before he gets the fever so 
badly that the result will be his buying a fast 
trotter or pacer. Mr. Sharpneck's hobby, out- 
side of his home life, is bowling, at which he 
is recognized as one of the cleverest amateurs 
in Greater Boston. He resides at Winthrop 
Highlands, Alass. 



KNAPP FORSHNER 

Kn.\pp Forshner was born in Wallace, 
Cumberland County, X. S., in 1865, and re- 
ceived his education in the schools of his 
native town. His first work was in 1884, 
making jewelry in the shop of Draper, Pate 
& Bailey, Attleboro, ]Mass. He started in 
business for himself in 1894, in Xorth Attle- 
boro, opening a sale and boarding stable and 
dealing in coal and wood. He is a member 
of the Metropolitan, Fellsway, and Dorches- 
ter Driving Clubs. 

Mr. Forshner first became interested in 
horses at Xorth Attleboro, where he con- 
ducted a public stable at the local half-mile 
track. Leaving Xorth Attleboro, he located 
at Combination Park, and was then in the 
hotel business in Brighton. After that he 
removed to Providence, where he was in the 
stable business and run a horseshoeing es- 
tablishment, also trained a ;tring of horses 
at Xarragansett Park for Fred E. I'erkins, 
the owner of the track property. When 
Xarragansett was turned over for the use 
of the running horse, ]\[r. Forshner removed 
to Hillsgrove. R. I., selling out his business 
in Providence. He then returned to Aled- 
ford, where he ran the Medford Inn and 
stable, and trained horses at Combination 
Park. His next venture was in the horse- 
shoeing business in Haverhill, 2\Iass., and 
running a public training stable in Kenoza 
Park. There he remained one year, when 
he returned to Boston and bought a grocery 
and provision business, which he disposed 
of in the Spring of 1914, that season training 
horses at the Charles River Speedway. 

Mr. Forshner, during his extended turf 
career, gave records to about twenty-five of 
his own horses, from 2:10 to 2:30, and fully 
as many were given their records by him 
that were owned by other parties. Ke had 
good success with the pacing mare, Edna B.. 
2 :C9 1-2, the season of 1914, winning four 
free-for-alls getting second money four times, 
and fourth money once. The times that he 
was second, he was defeated by the almost 
invincible half-mile pacing gelding of that 




EDWIN B. RICE 
Owner of the "Bi$ Four" of New England Anaconda, 2:01 3-4; John M. 
Royal R. Sheldon, 2:04 3-4, and The Friend, 2:05 1-4 



World's Double-Gaited Champion 




ANACONDA, Pacing, 2:013-4; Trotting, 2:09 3-4 (John Trout Up) 

After Securing His Pacing Record Anaconda, without the Aid of Hopples or Heavy Shoeing, Earned 

His Trotting Record, the Combined Time of VVhicli is Nearly Three Seconds Faster Than 

to the Credit of Any Otiier Harness Horse. Anaconda Was the Property of 

Edwin B. Rice, One of Boston's Foremost Horsemen 



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243 



\ear. Fred W. Edna 11. was owned in part- 
nership by Mr. Forshner and John H. 
Weeks, of Brookline. In the handling- of 
trotters and pacers, Air. Forshner has been 
successful, he having been particularly ex- 
pert in the balancing of trotters. Mr. Forsh- 
ner resides in Maiden, ]\Iass. 



JOHN W. CAWLEY 

John W. Cawlev was born in East Haver- 
hill, N. H., in 1866, and received his educa- 
tion in the public schools of that town. In 
1888 he accepted a clerical position with the 
Standard Oil Co., which was his first work 
in Boston. Three years later he started in 
business for himself, opening a brokerage 
office at 53 State St., where he is still located. 
He became a member of the Metropolitan 
Driving Club in 1914, and promises to be one 
of the real active members of the organiza- 
tion. He owned Lothair, 2:19, and enjoys 
iiugely tlie matinees at Charles River .Speed- 
way. Air. Cawley resifles in Rrmikline, .Mass. 

JESSE EDDY 

Jesse Eddy was born in Fall River, Mass., 
in 186S, and attended the grammar and high 
schools of his native cit}-. In 1S89 he entered 
the employ of A. Shuman & Co., clothiers of 
Boston, and is now identified with the same 
business, being employed by the John F. Fitz- 
gerald Clothing Co. Mr. Eddy joined the 
Metropolitan Driving Club in 1906. He has 
been a member of several of the committees, 
the most important being the racing commit- 
tee, of which he was secretary from 1908 to 
1912. While holding this position he became, 
if possible, even more popular with the mem- 
bers racing horses on account of his thor- 
ough impartiality, each and every man own- 
ing a horse being the same to him when it 
came to classifying them in a horse race. 

Of the horses that Mr. Eddy has owned 
can be brought to mind -Sir Albert S., 
2:03 3-4; The Baron, 2:19 1-4; Brown Bess, 
trial 2 128, and Bobby Patchen. Mr. Eddy is 
a member of the fraternal lodge of Masons. 
He resides at ;^t, (Jtis St., Afelrose, Mass. 

SAMUEL BOUVE HASTINGS 

Samuel Bouve Hastings was born in 
Alalden, Alass., in 1875, and attended the 
]niblic schools of that city. His first work 
in Boston was in 1893 for his father, A. \A'. 
Hastings, senior member of the firm of 
A. W. Hastings & Co., dealers in windows 
and doors, at 134 Friend Street, Boston, 
Mass. He started in business for himself in 
1902, with the retirement of his father from 
the firm. He joined the Metropolitan Driv- 
ing Club, being among the first memliers. 



and is also a member of the Elks and the 
Boston City Club. 

Mr. Hastings has I)een strongly identified 
with the professional and amateur sport for 
a number of years and has owned the best. 
Among those that he has raced are : High- 
ball, 2:033-4; The Ideal Lady, 2:091-4; 
Morine, 2:091-4; Mansfield, 2:051-4; 
Chimes Hal, 2:06 3-4; Doctor C, 2:13 1-4; 
etc. Mr. Hastings is very capable in the 
driving of a trotter or pacer, as was demon- 
s;rated at the Brockton Fair, in 1914, when 
he got up behind the pacer, Dick Direct, and 
won the race in several seconds faster time 
than what the same horse was defeated in 
earlier in the week. Mr. Hastings resides at 
Lexington, Mass. 



GEORGE W. NORTON 

George W. Norton was born in Cam- 
bridge, Mass., in 1857, and attciulcd tlie 
schools of Allston, Mass. His first work 
was for his father, Edward H. Norton, 
manufacturer of soap. In 1882 he succeeded 
his father in the soap business, in Cambridge, 
where he is still located. He was one of the 
first members of the Metropolitan Driving 
Club, of which he is a life member, and has 
served on the board of directors. He also 
belongs to the B. .-\. A. 

MrT Norton is one of the leading matinee 
enthusiasts, as well as having been promi- 
nent on the professional turf. Among those 
he has raced for cash prizes were: Sallie 
Hook, 2 :09, and also a matinee record to 
wagon of 2:o<); The Shah, 2:103-4; Jim 
Corbett, 2:15: Walter Roberts, 2:161-2; etc. 
He is the breeder and owner of the sterling 
trotter. The Mason, 2:17 1-4, that won more 
money in the Bay State Short Ship Circuit 
in 1914 than any other trotter, having $1,625 
to his credit in nine races, of which he got 
five firsts, two seconds, and once each a third 
and a fourth. .\fter the Spring-field meet. 
The Mason fame to his true racing form, and 
from then oij was unbeaten in the circuit, win- 
ning his next five remaining stake engage- 
ments and losing only three of the eighteen 
heats which he raced at Northampton, Hills- 
grove, Taunton, Marshfield, a-nd Fitchburg. 
The Mason was out of the mare, Fly-a-way, 
2:29 1-4, which Mr. Norton drove on the 
road and raced during the sleighing season on 
Beacon Street Boulevard for many seasons. 
With her retirement from active work, he 
bred Fly-a-way to Alliewood, 2 :09 1-2, the 
result being Tlie Mason. Mr. Norton resides 
in Lexington. Mass., where he has a very 
comfortable stock farm, which is called the 
Peacock Farm. 



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T. LEE QUIMBY 

T. Lee Quimby was born in Stanstead. 
Quebec, Canada, in 1864. He attended tbe 
Stanstead Wesleyan College and was grad- 
uated from ]\'lcGill University. His first 
work was writing for the daily newspapers, 
starting on the Montreal Star, and later 
being with the Montreal Herald and then 
the Canadian Sportsman. In 1902 he came 
to Boston, taking the position of manager 
of the American Horse Breeder, where he 
remained until the publication changed 
ownership. He is at ]:iresent interested in 
llie sale agency at 220 Devonshire Street, 
Boston. 

Air. Ouimby was one of the first mem- 
bers of the Gentlemen's Driving Club of 
ISoston, and at the initial election in 1889, was 
elected to the office of secretary, which posi- 
tion he has since filled. He is also secre- 
tary and treasurer of the League of Ama- 
teur Driving Clubs, that comprise a mem- 
bershi]i of clubs representing the lareer 
cities in the country, like Cleveland, New 
York, Syracuse, Pittsburgh, etc. 

In his position on the Horse Breeder, and 
m his ofiicial capacity with the matinee 
sport, Mr. Ouimby has always been active 
in furthering the interests of amateur rac- 
ing. His articles were instructive. i)ithy, 
well-balanced and, withal, contained the true 
enthusiasm, ably inspired by the writer, 
well versed in his chosen sport. In his office 
of secretary he was zealous in the eleva- 
tion of matinee racing to the highest scope, 
believing that the American trotter was the 
best horse bred in the world for the use 
of gentlemen. 

Mr. Ouimby has indulged in matinee rac- 
ing, having owned several ,that he raced 
in the events of the Gentlemen's Driving 
Club of l^oston. He resides at 132 Apple- 
ton Street, Arlington Heights, Mass. 



WILBUR L. DUNTLEY 

Wilbur L. Duntlev was born in Rochester, 
N. H., in 1871, and after passing the schools 
of his native city attended Dartmoutr: Col- 
lege. He came to Boston in 1897 to work 
for the Boston Herald in the art department. 
y\fter several years with tiiat paper, he be- 
came connected with the American Horse 
Breeder and other publications. He wos one 
of the prime movers and manager in the re- 
organization of Rockingham Park, Salem, 
K. H., into one of the biggest annual fairs 
of Xew England. 

Mr. Duntlev has a wide reputation as an 
artist, he having painted some of the most 
celebrated horses on the American tnrf. In 
recent years his painting of I'hlan. and ijie 



"A Dash for a Fortune," the illustration of the 
fantous $50,000 race, is considered by critics 
the work of a master. He is at present engaged 
in his chosen vocation of placing on canvas 
prominent horses in action. 

Mr. Duntley joined the Metropolitan Driv- 
ing Club in igcS, and was elected secretary 
that year, which office he has since held. His 
partiality for the horse has led him to en- 
gage in racing both as an amateur and in the 
professional field. He has owned and de- 
veloped seven trotters that raced in better 
than 2:16. Of the ones prominent in mati- 
nee racing are: Enoch 'W., 2:16 1-4; Margate, 
2:08 1-4; Una D., 2:27 1-4; Clontarf, Jr., 
2:241-4; etc. Mr. Duntley resides at 1141 
Commonwealth Avenue, Allston, Mass. 



W. J. FURBUSH 

W. J. FuRBtTSH was born in Lebanon, Me., 
in 1865, and received his education in the 
local schools of his native town. His first 
work in P)Oston was in 1886, in the grocery 
store of his brother, A. J. Furbush, in the 
Brighton district. He started in business for 
himself in 1891, opening a grocery and pro- 
vision store in West Newton, where he is 
at present located at 64 Chestnut Street. 
He was one of the, first to join the Metro- 
politan Driving Club, of which he is a life 
member. He was very active in its affairs, 
having served on the board of directors and 
as vice-president. He is also a charter mem- 
ber of the A. O. U. W. 

Mr. I'urliush has been for years very 
strongly interested in horses, he having 
owned and raced some of the best that have 
left Massachusetts. One never to be forgot- 
ten was the pacing gelding, Phoebon W., 
2 ;c8 3-4. which record he obtained the third 
heat of his race at Saugus track and is stifi 
the track record. This gelding was raced 
by Mr. Furbush in the Provinces and Can- 
ada and one season he won every race in 
which he started. r)n tlie ice at Ottawa he 
gained the tlien world'^ record bv winning 
the first heat of his race in 2:16 1-4, and was 
rewarded witJi a silver cnp by the association 
for his performance. ( )n this event was 
waged .$22,oco in the pool box. In this meet- 
ing he won the 2 :c6 pace on Tuesday and the 
free-for-all on Friday in the same week. 
Mr. Furbush sold Phoe!)on W. for $3,500, but 
later he bought him back and he is now 
owned Ijv himself and bib brother, A. C, who 
intend that he shall die their property. 

Other horses of importance campaigned 
or matineed by Mr. Furbush were Parker S., 
2:061-2; Coney. 2:02; My Star, 2:033-4; 
Louise G., pacing, 2:08 1-2, trotting, 2:21. The 
last named captured the speed cup given by 



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245 



the ^letropolitan Driving L'lulj for trotters in 
the Spring series of lyoy, winning her 
fourth heat in 1:01 1-4. In the Fall series 
of that year, she won the point cup for 
pacers, and in the Fall series of 1910, she 
was placed to trotting again, capturing the 
speed cup with a winning heat of I :02 1-2. 
Then came from his stable Paul Revere, 
2:071-2; Col. Taylor, 2:091-2, winner of a 
tive-niile race at Montreal ; Red I'epper, 
2:171-2; jMazie Sidney, trial 2:131-4, win- 
ner of the championship ribbon for two sea- 
sons at the Franklin Field Speedway, and, 
when Air. Furbush sold her, he gave the rib- 
bon- back to the Dorchester Driving Club to 
again be raced for. Others nut before men- 
tioned were Young Clon, 2:131-4; General 
Fiske, 2:143-4, and some 150 more with 
records in 2 :3o or better. Mr. Furbush re- 
sides at 66 Davis Avenue, \\'est Xewton, 
Mass. 



HARRY J. RUSSELL 

H.\RRV J. Rus.sELL. twenty-live years ago, 
opened a real estate and investment office at 
ytj ]\lilk Street, Boston, which he has, by con- 
slant application and good business judg- 
ment, developed into one of the largest in the 
city. He joined the Metropolitan Driving 
Clul) at its first meeting in Young's Hotel, 
and, when the second meeting came about, put 
in ten new members, paying their dues with 
his personal check. He also belongs to the 
Dorchestei- and the Gentlemen's Driving Clubs 
of Boston. 

Air. Russell has one hobby — a good road 
horse, and always has him hooked right. 
Probably no horse was better known in 
Greater Boston than Picture Hat, and he was 
in every way what his name designates — a 
picture. He had 2 :20 speed, was a free 
driver and perfectly mannered, which, with 
beauty, made a great combination of cjuali- 
ties to be foimd in one horse. Hitchef! 
•double with Addison A., the pair would give 
a person a most magnificent ride, not think- 
ing anything of stepping ofif a thirty-mile 
journey in one afternoon. 

In the early days of racing at Charles 
River Speedway, Mr. Russell, besides Picture 
Hat, had in the matinees the fast pacer, The 
Private. 2:07 1-2, that was driven by ^l. A. 
Nevens, Queen Elizabeth, Jessie K., 
2:26 1-2; Kidnapper, 2:24; Frank Herdic, 
2:17 1-4: Kitty Wilkes, 2:24 1-4. etc. Mr. 
Russell resides at 4^17 Massachusetts .\venuc. 
Pi(Tston. 

LEWIS WHITAKER 
Lewis Whitaker was born in Stanstead, 
Conn., in 1831. He received his education 



in the schools of New Hampshire, \'ermont 
and Massachusetts, his parents moving from 
one to the other of these states while he was 
a young man. His first work in Boston was in 
1848, in the employ of Daniel Whitaker, soap 
manufacturer, in Jamaica Plain. In 1852 he 
started in the soap business for himself in 
Jamaica Plain, and, five years later, opened 
a provision store there. After running this 
three years, he disposed of it and. in 1861, 
he started in the tallow business, locating in 
Roxbury, where he remained forty-two years, 
retiring from business when he was seventy 
years of age. Mr. Whitaker is a member of 
the fraternal order of Masons. 

Mr. Whitaker was long identified with the 
professional turf of New England. He was 
a patron of the noted driver, J. J. Bowen. 
His first venture was with the trotter Hazor, 
that gained a record of 2 :27. He then got 
the good money-winning performer. Magic, 
2:25 1-4. Then, in turn, came White Socks, 
2:20 1-2, wdiich had every indication of being 
one of the most valuable trotters of his period 
when his turf career was cut short by his sud- 
den death. This was a severe blow to both 
Mr. Whitaker and "PTncle Jock," but did not 
deter Air. Whitaker from further investment 
in high-class trotters. His next venture was 
Jesse Hanson, 2:13 3-4, that was campaigned 
i^ver mile tracks for several seasons with 
success. Refina, 2:08 1-2, will long be re- 
membered by horsemen in her succession of 
hard-fought victories. From the tap of the 
bell, for the first heat, she was never left out 
of the reckoning. The last of Mr. Whitaker's 
racing was done with the pacer, John T., 
2 :o9 1-4, which he owned in partnership with 
Sanford Small. This gelding was driven in 
his races by Lester Dore, as Mr. WbH-' 
considered it too dangerous for Mr. Bowen 
to drive in races at his old age. Mr. Whita- 
ker resides at 47 Ocean Street, Dorchester, 
Alass. 



EVERETT L. SMITH 

Everett L. Smith was born in Quincv, 
Mass., in 1865, and attended the Dwight 
Grammar School in Boston, and w^as gradu- 
ated from the Bryant & Stratton Commercial 
College. He entered the employ of Cumner- 
Jones Co., tailors' trimmings, in 1884, it be- 
ing his first work in Boston. In later years he 
was identified as turf correspondent for the 
metropolitan papers of New York and Chi- 
cago, and of many of the leading weekly pub- 
lications devoted to the interests of the light 
harness horse. Mr. Smith is a member of the 
Gentlemen's Driving Club of Boston and the 
B. A. A. of Boston." 

Mr. Smith has been very prominent on die 



Thomas J. Griffin and His Horses 




ALFRED KING (2), 2:28 1-4 FRANTELL (2| (by Walnut Hall) 

Two Very Promising Colts. Frantell Is in $85,000 Worth of Futurity Stakes to Be Raced in 1915. Alfred 

King, When Three Years Old, Worked in 2:15, a Half in 1:04 1-2 



Thomas J. Ciriffin and His Horses (Cont.) 




CASCADE, 2:06 1-2 

Joint Holder, with Charley King, of Franklin Field Quarter-mile Speedway Record of 29 Seconds. 

He Was Prominent in Interclub Meets 



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amateur turf, having owned over 150 horses 
with records of 2:30 or better, among the 
number being Ward M., 2:09 1-4; Sherman 
Clay, 2:05 3-4; Gijes Noyes, 2:05 1-4; Sena- 
tor L.. 2:12; Billy H., 2:10 3-4; and I'.rothcr 
JMilro', 2:14 1-2. While Mr. Smith has 
owned many horses with speed, yet the one he 
feels the most pride in is Quilberta, foaled on 
Mav 14, 191 1, and which he bred himself. 
This filly took a trotting record, on August 6, 
1913, of 2 :29 3-4, as a two-year-old. This 
was at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., over a very 
heavy track; in fact, so bad was the footing 
that one of the horses racing that afternoon 
could not go faster than around 2 130, and a 
week later stepped in 2:17 1-2. 

Quilberta is bred in the purple. She w'as 
sired by Bingara, which at thirteen years of 
age had 75 with records between 2 105 1-4 and 
2 :30, and has four sons and five daughters 
that have either sired standard speed or have 
produced it. Her dam is Regal Lassie, 
2:26 1-4, by Ralph Rex, 2:26 3-4. Regal 
Lassie had three foals before she died, in 
1913. Zaida secured a record of 2:09 1-4, 
Lester M. appended a matinee record of 
2:14 1-2, over a half-mile track, and Quil- 
berta. the equine subject of this sketch. Ralph 
Rex was a son of the mighty Ralph Wilkes, 
2 :o6 3-4, son of Red Wilkes. Second dam of 
Quilberta was Cune Lass, the dam of Cristo, 
2:17 1-4, by Palatka, son of Nutwood, 
2:18 3-4. Third dam, Cuneiform, dam of 
Cascade, 2:06 1-2, and Silvia, 2:19 1-4, by 
Lord Russell. Fourth dam, Englewood, dam 
of Kurburn, 2:20, by Belmont. Fifth dam. 
Woodbine, dam of Wedgewood, 2:19, and 
Woodford Mambrino, 2:21 1-2, etc., by 
Woodford. 

Mr. Smith has not only made a reputation 
as a turf authority, but his very clever work 
with the brush has given him a name among 
artists, his work in oil of some of the famous 
trotters having brought him agreeable criti- 
cism from men with rare judgment in equine 
art. A peculiarity of Mr. Smith is the super- 
stition of seeing the new moon over his right 
or left shoulder. He would rather pay $50 
to some good cause than see a new inooii 
over his left shoulder. In illustrating this is 
told the following: 

In 1907, the year Mr. Smith visited Au- 
stralia, he mentioned the fact one evening be- 
fore leaving Boston that he was afraid he 
was in for a siege of hard luck, as he hap- 
pened to look at the new moon over his left 
shoulder. His friends took this with a lot of 
incredulity and jollied Mr. Smith consider- 
ably over' the way he felt. Watch the lesult; 
That evening, on returning home. Mr. Smith 



was held up on the Boston Common and had 
a twenty-stone diamond horseshoe pin taken, 
a twelve-ride ticket between Boston and \\'est- 
boro, and $48 in currency. 

On the other hand, here was a time when 
he glimpsed the new moon over his right 
shoulder. It was about the last of pool-selling 
at Springfield. Mass. Henry Pope's Boss H. 
was touted heavily to win, as he had been 
timed in better than 2 :2o the week before. 
Among those opposing him in the race was 
the little trotter, George A., owned by Eugene 
and George Aver of Boston. Mr. Smith was 
obliged to stand at the edge of the crowd 
when Col. Morse opened up the selling, and 
he thought the Colonel w'as ofl^ering Boss H. 
at $10, so raised both hands, and fingers 
spread out, to indicate he would like a supply 
of ten tickets at that market. Morse knocked 
down the order, and when Mr. Smith went 
for his tickets, they read, George A., $10, in 
total pools of $130 to $180. It so happened 
that Mr. Smith had not cash enough to hedge 
off, so he had to let this stand. Well, Boss H. 
made a bad break in the first turn the first 
heat and was distanced by at least one-eighth 
of a mile, the heat being won by Geo. A., 
driven by Tom Marsh, as were also the two 
heats following and the race. George A., 
having been rated as a "morning glory," Mr. 
.Smith never would have invested counterfeit 
moiie\- nn him, but having seen the new 
moon over his right shoulder, ot course, fate 
]nit his money on the winner, as he has al- 
ways believed, and the result was that his 
bank account was increased by over $1,300. 
Mr. Smith resides in Westboro, Mass. 



EUGENE S. MORSE 

EuGENi^ S. Morse was burn in WatLM'ville, 
Me., in 1850, and received his education in 
Brookline, Mass., where he was graduated 
from the high school. In 1876 he first began 
work in Boston, engaging with G. M. Win- 
slow & Co., dealers in coal. He started in the 
retail coal business for himself in 1896, at lOU 
Medford Street, Charlestown, where he is still 
located. 

Mr. Morse is a member of the Metri^pol- 
itan, Dorchestci and F'ellsway Driving Clubs. 
He joined the Dorchester Club in 1904, and 
was a charter memljer of the other two 
clubs. He also belongs to the Masons, the 
National Lancers, Boston Light Infantry, 
Coal Exchange of Boston, and the Chamber 
of Commerce. For many years Mr. Morse 
was in the thick of battle on the speedw^ay 
with his fast string of pacers, and it was a 
merry kind o'. a wiggler that was capable of 
taking his measure. Among those best 





GKORGE H. GREENWOOD 
Secretary Dorchester Club 1901-1914 (in- 
clusive) 



P. OHEARN 
First Vice-President Dorchester C:iub 1914 





JOS. F. O'CONNELL 

Congressman from Tenth District the Term 

of 1906-07 



GEORGE E. GRIFFIN 
Active Worker in Dorchester Club 



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known that he drove were liilh- Wilkes, 
2:181-4: Edith J., 2:141-4, and Billy F., 
2 -.11 1-4. Each of these was the recipient of 
several of the season's cups at the iVIetro- 
politan Club races. Mr. Morse resides at 
18 Thayer Street, Brookline, Mass. 



ble that compares with an)' in the city. Mr. 
Hall resides at 78 Beacon Street, Boston, 
Mass. 



GEORGE G. HALL 

George G. Hall was born in Tiverton, 
R. L, in the homestead settled by his fore- 
father, William Hall, who was the first re- 
corded taxpayer of that settlement, back in 
1638. Coming to Boston he entered the hotel 
business, being manager of the Parker House 
for eleven years. J. Reed Whipple tilled the 
position of steward at the same hotel. Messrs. 
Hall and Whipple began business for them- 
selves by opening Young's Hotel in 1876, and 
in 1883 they opened the Adams House. Later 
on Mr. Hall assumed the sole ownership of 
the Adams House, Mr. Whipple taking 
Young's Hotel. 

For many years Mr. Hall has been the king- 
pin of New England in owning and driving 
matched pairs of fast trotters. He was fa- 
miliar in the road days of the old Mill Dam, 
Mile Ground, Arsenal Road and Beacon Street 
boulevard. It was a sight never to be forgot- 
ten to see Mr. Hall go over the speed grounds 
behind one of his speedy pairs of trotters. He 
had in Bervaldo, 2:081-4, and Don Labor, 
2 :o5 1-4. the fastest pair ever owned by a New 
England man. 

Other pairs that made fame for Air. Hall 
throughout the whole country were Tomah, 
2:10, and Eddie B., 2:143-4; Kim, 2:133-4, 
and Lexington, 2:231-4; Bessie Brown, 
2:123-4, and Regal Lassie, 2:261-4; Kallar 
and Nethersole ; Actress. 2 :26 3-4. and Lady 
Preston, 2 :30. which stepped a mile in 2 :23 ; 
Genie L., 2:18 1-4, and Alta, 2:17 1-2. which 
trotted Mystic Park in 2 :22 1-4. Mr. Hall 
is at present driving "together Bervaldo and 
Harry Mac. The fastest mile ever made 
by a pair of trotters in New England with 
horses owned by the same man, is to the credit 
of Tomah and Eddie B., they turning Read- 
ville track in 2:13 1-4. Mr. Hall has owned 
more than 400 trotters with records of 2:30 
and better, a record never approached by any 
other man in New England, and perhaps not 
in the entire country by one using the horses 
for their own personal road driving'. 

Mr. Hall is a life member of the Metropoli- 
tan Driving Club and a charter member of 
the Gentlemen's Driving Club, of Boston. He 
also belongs to many social clubs of Boston. 
.\t Portsmouth. R. I., he owns a valuable stock 
farm, the residence having all of the conven- 
iences of a city home of wealth, and the barns 
containing all modern improvements. In Bos- 
ton he has, at 12 Byron Street, a private sta- 



GEORGE ROBINSON HALL 

George Robinson H.\ll was born in New 
Bedford, Mass., in 1871, and received his pre- 
liminary education at the Somerset and Prince 
Schools in Boston, and was graduated from 
the New Bedford High and Friends' Acad- 
emy, New Bedford. He has devoted his life 
in the hotel business, being connected with his 
father, George G. Hall, in the Adams House, 
Boston, Mass. 

Mr. Hall is a life member of the Metropoli- 
tan Driving Club and one of the first to join 
the Gentlemen's Driving Club of Boston. He 
also belongs to the B. A. A., Tatassit, and Bos- 
ton Yacht Clubs, the Sons of Revolution, and 
the Colonial War Decendents. 

Mr. Hall has been one of the foremost road 
drivers of Boston, and was greatly interested 
in matinee racing at Readville. He dififered 
from the other members of his family in en- 
joying a fast pacer, as well as a trotter, and 
he earned the reputation of being a clever 
reinsman in either road brushing or in mati- 
nee racing. Among the well known horses he 
has owned, and won many races with, are 
Nellie S., 2:12 1-4; Early Bird, Jr., 2:11 1-2; 
Little Wonder, 2:161-4; Cinch, 2:081-4; 
Geiger, 2:15 3-4; Dick Berry, 2:11 3-4; Sid 
Barnes, 2:161-4; Harry, 2:19; Belgard, 
2:16 1-4; Dora Wilkes, trial, 2:20; Dividend 
(matinee), 2:19 1-4, etc. Besides his horses, 
Mr. Hall derives great pleasure in hunting and 
fishing in Maine. Mr. Hall resides at the 
Adams House, Boston, Mass. 



FRANK GARDNER HALL 

Fr.'\nk Gardner Hall was born in Boston 
in 1873, and was graduated from the .'Mien 
School in Newton and Milton Academy. Air. 
Hall has a historical line of ancestry, as, on 
his father's side, they settled in Rhode Island 
in 1638, while, on his mother's side, he traces 
fourteen times to the Alayfiower, through 
Elder Brewster, Alyles Standish, John Alden, 
etc. 

Air. Hall is a born horseman, from his earlv 
days having had access to his father's stable 
of trotters. Later in life he had his own 
horses to drive. With Col. John E. Thayer 
he organized the Gentlemen's Driving Club of 
Boston, the first driving club of the country 
in the Amateur League of Driving Clubs. In 
the club he filled the offices of treasurer, on 
the board of directors and the executive com- 
mittee. He is a life member of the Aletro- 
i^olitan Club, and belongs to the Brookline 
Country Club, B. A. A., and Boston Yacht 
Club. 



Joseph W. Burns and His Horses 



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'xVP 




RALPH BINGEN (by Teddy Bingen), 2:15 1-4 
Dam Dot, by Brazilian, 2:22 3-4 









DOT with Her Baby Foal, ADDIE ECHO 



DOT Hitched to Cart. She Was a Prize Winner 
at Franklin Field Speedway in 1913 



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Mr. Hall was particularly active in matinee 
racing at Readville track, and of the New Eng- 
land Breeders' Association, in which he held 
the position of treasurer for seven years. He 
was one of the official timers for several years 
at Mystic Park, and later held the same ofiice 
at the Readville meetings. 

Not only can Mr. Hall drive a trotter well, 
hitched to a wagon, but he is expert in hand- 
ling double teams. At Readville he drove the 
pair, Tomah, 2:10, and Eddie B., 2:14 3-4, a 
mile in 2:13 1-4, the fastest mile in New Eng- 
land by a pair of trotters from one stable. In 
one season at Readville he won twenty-one 
blue ribbons in the matinees. Among the fast 
trotters he has owned and raced can be called 
to mind, Kim. 2 :i3 3-4 ; Cinch, 2 :o8 1-4 ; Xelly 
S., 2:121-4; Ethelwyn, 2:141-4; Lexington, 
matinee record, 2 -.2^ 1-4 ; Cora AMlkes, matinee 
record 2:221-2; Miss Strike, 2:141-4; Dora 
Wilkes, My Budd, Pauline, 2:241-4; Bel- 
gard, 2:161-4, Gloria \Mlkes. Mary Glenor, 
2 :24 1-2, etc. Belgard he used for a brood 
mare, and she produced Belle Todd, trial as a 
three-year-old of 2:191-4. He had trained 
in 1914 a two-year old out of Belgard. named 
Gardner Hall, which was timed in 2 :20 1-4. 

Besides the horses. Mr. Hall has a fancy 
for yachting, having owned two cup winners, 
while on the edge of the White Mountains he 
has a large camp, with motor boats and fitted 
with all the comforts of camp life. He is an 
ardent motorist, having driven his car over 
a hundred thousand miles without an accident. 

Mr. Hall in his business life has been con- 
nected with his father, George G. Hall, in the 
Adams House. Boston, where he resides. 

MICHAEL F. MURPHY 
MiCH.\EL F. ^luRPHV. whose stable of blue 
ribbon winners is located at 4-5-6 Byron Street 
and 90 Chestnut Street. Boston, has devoted 
his whole life in the horse business. He takes 
great pride in developing horses into prize 
winners and disposing of them to the wealthy 
owners of high-class hitches. 

Mr. Murphy declares that today there is a 
greater call for real good horses than ever 
before, his only trouble being in getting hold 
of enough to supply the demand, ^^■hat is 
needed, too. are suitable roads for the enjoy- 
ment of driving and riding. 

Mr. Murphy was very fortunate in the Win- 
ter of 1914-15 in having in his stable blue 
ribbon winners of all classes. The most of 
these were the stars in the Horse Show Cir- 
cuit of 1914, their names being familiar to all 
devotees of horse shows, as follows : Advance 
Guard. Reliance, Royal Charlie, Lady Gray- 
ling, Doris, Dignity. Royal High Lady and 
Roval High Roller, 'Bonny and Brandy, etc. 



ROWLAND WARD 

Rowland \\'.\rd was born in Sheffield. 
England, and received his education in the 
schools of his native country. His first work 
in Boston was as meat cutter, in 1888. for 
Thomas \\'ard. In 1895 he started in business 
for himself, opening a provision store in 
Hyde Park. He is now the owner of a livery 
and boarding stable in Hyde Park. He joined 
the Dorchester Driving Club in 1910, and is 
also a member of the Odd Fellows. Among 
the horses he has raced at the Franklin Field 
Speedway are Lizzie Pandit, matinee record 
2:20; Zaza C, matinee record 2:16, and 
Chatsworth, that has won heats in his events 
in r :o8. Mr. Ward resides at 17 Westmin- 
ster St., Hyde Park, Mass. 



JOSIAH B. REED 

Josi.\ii B. Reed was born in South \\"ey- 
mouth in 1862, and was graduated from the 
public schools of that town. He first went to 
work in Boston as salesman for Stone & 
Forsyth, in 1889. and remained with them for 
twenty-five years. On January i, 1914, he en- 
tered the firm, as treasurer, of \\'hitney Bros.. 
Inc., wholesale dealers in paper and twine, at 
84 Chauncy St., Boston. Mr. Reed was one 
of the charter members of the Old Colony 
Driving Club and has served on the board of 
directors. He has been prominent in the mat- 
inees at South ^^"eymouth and in the inter- 
club meets, the fastest performers he has 
owned being Edith R., 2:18 1-4, the sweet 
little pacing mare that is so popular in am.i- 
teur racing of Greater Boston, and ^lollie 
Pitcher, who gained a matinee record of 2 :2S. 
and was often a heat winner at South Wey- 
mouth in around I :i4. Mr. Reed resides in 
South ^^'evmouth. ^lass. 



O. C. CHARLES 

O. C. Ch.\rles was born in Fryeburg. Me., 
in 1864, and received his education in the 
public schools of that town. His first work in 
Boston was in 1887, in the employ of \\'. B. 
Blakemar, who was in the milk business. He 
started a milk route of his own in 1894. in 
Dorchester, and is now in the boarding, bait- 
ing and sale stable business at 174 Hampden 
St.. Boston. He joined the Dorchester Driving 
Club in 191 1, and is also a member of the 
I. O. O. F. and the A. O. U. W. Mr. Charles 
has participated in the matinee racing since 
becoming a member, his two best known 
horses at Franklin Field Speedway being 
George M., 2:14 1-4, and Hector, that has 
won heats in 1:1 1. Mr. Charles resides at 2y 
Albion St., Roxburv, Mass, 




LISTER W. (3), 2:25 1-4 

Winner of First Race Having Five Starters at Franklin Field Speedway. 

Owned and Driven by Calvin MacDonald 




LADY MADISON, 2:20 1-4 
One of the First Trotting Champions of the Dorchester Club. 
Peter J. Fitzgerald 



Owned and Driven by 



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EDWIN B. RICE 

Edwin B. Rice was born in East Bostou, 
Mass., in 1879, and was graduated from the 
East Boston schools and Chauncy Hall School, 
Boston. Mr. Rice has had on the Grand 
Circuit and the New England tracks the great- 
est galaxy of pacing speed of any horse owner 
in all New England. The "Big Four" he cam- 
paigned will ever be green in the memory of 
horsemen, viz.. Anaconda, 2:01 3-4; John M., 
2:02 3-4; Royal R. Sheldon, 2:04 3-4; and 
The Friend, 2:05 1-4. 

Anaconda still remains the champion 
double-gaited performer of the world, as, 
besides having a pacing record of 2 :oi 3-4. 
he gained a trotting record of 2 :o9 3-4 under 
the name of Knox Gelatine King, the com- 
bined time of both gaits being 2:05 1-4. This 
is nearly three seconds faster than his near- 
est competitor, Tay-Eye-See, whose combined 
record is 2 :o8 1-8. Anaconda's wonderful 
sweep of the Grand Circuit, under the man- 
agement and driving of Jack Trout, was the 
particular feature of that season. 

John i\I. holds the world's champion pac- 
ing record to wagon, for a half-mile, his time 
of I :oo 1-4, made at Memphis, Tenn., Oct. 23, 
1903, never having been beaten. In the sea- 
son of 1904 he gained the then world's four- 
heat pacing record, losing the first heat of the 
race to Dan R., the second heat to Gallagher, 
and then winning the third and fourth heats 
in 2 :o3 1-2 each. 

Royal R. Sheldon was one of the most 
prominent pacers that was ever campaigned 
from New England. He is joint holder of 
the Saugus track record of 2 :o7, made the 
first heat of a race and driven by Mr. Rice 
himself. Phoebon W. has the third heat rec- 
ord for the track of 2 :o8 3-4, 

The Friend was a certain two-minute pacer, 
but meeting with an accident his turf career 
was cut off when just in condition for a series 
of sweeping victories in his class. 

These "Big Four" do not constitute all of the 
good horses that Mr. Rice has owned and 
raced. There was Sufreet, 2 :o6 1-4, which 
on July 15. 1905, at Pittsburgh, Pa., made the 
then world's amateur pacing record to wagon 
for four heats, she winning the first and fourth 
heats, the second going to Lady May and the 
third one to Terrace Queen. 

Among the others which have made turf 
history of credit for themselves are Helen R., 
2:08 1-2; L. L. D., 2:09: Darius, 2:09: Art 
Alto, 2:08 1-4: Fred H., 2:12 1-4; Orianna, 
2:12 1-2: Chief \\'ilkie. 2:12 3-4; Baron 
March. 2:13; Regulus, 2:18 1-4; Provider, 
2:18 1-2; Ponemah. 2:25 1-4; Perhaps, 2:26, 
etc. 

While Mr. Rice has successfully driven in 
many races, yet he delights in relating of the 



one which he won at Rockland, Me. The 
track association of that town hung up a 
purse of $500 for a free-for-all, and Mr. Rice 
went down there with L. L. D., with the idea 
he could pick up some soft money. But the 
state of Maine people had no idea of 
losing the big end of a $500 purse without 
making a big struggle. The judges waived 
distance ; then one pacer was slated to go 
after L. L. D., while the others jogged around 
the track. It proved, in this way of racing, a 
tough battle, but Mr. Rice finally won in seven 
heats. 

Another event of pride to Mr. Rice is 
winning a large silver cup at Combination 
Park. Medford, with his trotting mare, Pone- 
mah. The other starters in the race didn't 
figure Mr. Rice had the slightest chance in 
getting the trophy, hence the victory proved 
all the sweeter in landing. 

One event that Air. Rice will never forget 
happened when the racing to sleigh in East 
Boston was in Chelsea Street. He had the 
trotting mare. Orianna, and one of the reins 
broke when racing. Having lost control of 
the mare, Mr. Rice jumped into a snowbank 
when he saw the East Boston Ferry landing 
just ahead. A moment later and over went 
Orianna, sleigh and all, into the harbor. It 
was more than one hour before the mare was 
rescued, but she sufl^ered no after results from 
her long dip in the salt water. Mr. Rice re- 
sides at the Hotel Touraine, Boston, Mass. 

JAMES E. FITZGERALD 

James E. Fitzger.m.d was born in East 
Boston in i860, and attended the schools of 
that section of Boston. When 17 years of age 
he expended all the money he had and could 
raise — $15 — in buying a horse and outfit at 
the old Brighton horse market, and started 
out peddling potatoes and later added meats 
to his list of articles. In buying a $15 rig to 
start business, Mr. Fitzgerald, in comparison, 
has since sold horses for prices running up 
to $1,500. When Mr. Fitzgerald got out of 
the peddling line he opened a liquor store at 
145 Everett Street, East Boston, where he re- 
mained for twenty years, then removing to 
25-27 Orleans Street, East Boston, his pres- 
ent location. 

Mr. Fitzgerald came naturally in his love 
for fine horses, as his father was one of the 
leading horsemen of Boston. Forty-six years 
ago (1868) Mr. Fitzgerald saw his first horse 
race. It was at the Saugus track. His father had 
matched Miller's Damsel to trot twenty miles 
in one hour and fifteen minutes. She had 
gone the distance, as determined by three men, 
but the opposition contended that the mare 
had only circled the course nineteen times. 
Mr. Fitzgerald, senior, wasted little time in 




JAMES CAMPBELL 

Old-Time Boston Horseman and 

Patron of J. J. Bowen 



ALDEN H. WOODARD 

Who Became Noted in Developing the 

Lambert Breed of Trotters 





JOHN F. 1)1 NN 

The South Boston Horseman in 

Dorchester Club 



FRANK I. WILKINS 
Well Known Member of Dorchester Club 



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argument, but ordered that Miller's Damse! 
be driven another mile, which she did in the 
fast time, for the whole distance, of twenty- 
one miles, in ih., urn., 7s. To see this race, 
which he had heard discussed so much, Mr. 
Fitzgerald secreted himself in the robes under 
the seats of the wagon that took the party to 
the track. 

From that time ]\Ir. Fitzgerald has been a 
constant attendant of race meetings, and he 
has owned many fast trotters and pacers. He 
joined the ^letropolitan Club when it was or- 
ganized, and is also a member of the Dor- 
chester Club. He is a life member of the 
Boston Lodge of Elks, and belongs to the 
fraternal orders of Foresters. Knights of 
Columbus and the A. O. H. 

Among the best known horses owned and 
raced by Mr. Fitzgerald can be mentioned 
Dick, 2:12 1-2; Lockheir, 2:23; Tilly Cline, 
2:16; Tee Dee Gee, 2:19 1-4; Bonnets O" 
Blue, 2:18 3-4; Cato, 2.23 1-2; Jack, a great 
snow horse ; H. R. B.. another which made 
fame on the snow ; \\"atchmaker Patchen, 
which Denny Keefe took to England and won 
many races : Blacksmith Maid, trial of 2 :o8, 
which Eddie Switzer broke from being a rank 
puller. 

Mr. Fitzgerald induced the later prominent 
local trainer and driver, Mertie Page, to come 
to Boston from Laconia, X. H., securing him 
the position of assistant trainer for C. E. 
]\Iosher, from which position he soon had on 
the circuit the pacing gelding. Charley P., 
2:18 1-2. owned by Charles Pinkham of Lynn. 
Mr. Fitzgerald resides at 205 Webster Street, 
East Boston, Mass. 



THOMAS J. GRIFFIN 

Thom.\s J. Griffin was born in W'altham, 
Mass.. in 1875. and attended the Lowell 
School in Boston. After working in several 
lines of business, including the running of a 
milk route in Somerville, he finally learned 
the trade of mason. In 1902 was organized 
the John F. Griffin Company, building con- 
tractors. 15 Merchants Row, of which Mr. 
Griffin was one of the firm. Later the office 
was removed from Merchants Row to 17 
Milk Street, where it is now located. 

Mr. Griffin joined the Dorchester Club in 
1907, and the same year became a member of 
the Metropolitan and the Fellsway Clubs. He 
has served on the board of directors of the 
Dorchester Club. He is also a member of 
the T!oston Lodge of Elks, and the Dorches- 
ter A. A. 

In both matinee and professional racing 
Mr. Griffin has been strongly identified. The 
most of his amateur sport he has enjoyed at 



the Franklin Field Speedway. The tirst he 
raced for the ribbons was a green trotter 
named Pontosuc. He then got Edith R., 
2:18 1-4; Red Echo, 2:17 1-4: and Lee Burns, 
2:14 1-4, that for a time was champion pacer 
of the Dorchester Club, with a speedway 
record of 30 seconds. 

Directumwood, 2:201-4. was one of the 
fastest ever on the Franklin Field Speedway, 
as in 14 races, the season of 1909, he only 
lost one heat, and gained a record of 29 1-4 
seconds, which has remained the best for 
the speedway, for a pacer without the hopples. 

Another whirlwind was Johnny Agan, 
2:05 1-4, one of the fastest pacers, by record, 
ever raced at Franklin Field. With Easter 
Direct, 2:09 1-2, Mr. Griffin secured the pac- 
ing record for a half mile at Franklin Field, 
she marching off the distance in 1:01 1-2. 
Then Cascade, 2:061-2. brought a lot of 
credit to the (iriffin matinee stable, in defeat- 
ing Chief Wilkie at the Charles River Speed- 
way, being the first pacer to perform the trick 
over that course. He also earned a record 
of 29 seconds, the third heat of a race, at 
Franklin Field, which mark was later tied 
l)y Charley King, and still stands the best 
over the old quarter-mile course. W"nh 
Geraldine Mr. Griffin won seven out of nine 
races. She was a green mare, not having 
been raced professionally. 

But the best of all of Mr. Griffin's liorses 
was the trotter, Worthy Prince. 2:11 1-4, 
which he bought wh.en three years old at the 
Xew York sale for S600. The following sea- 
son he had him trained at the Rockingham 
Park track, and he improved to a mile in 
2:17 1-2. During the Grand Circuit meeting 
and fair Mr. Griffin tried hard to sell the 
stallion to a Xew York man, and would have 
accepted S500, possibly less, for the trotter, 
but to the utter discouragement of INIr. 
Griffin, the .Vew Yorker would not do busi- 
ness. 

The next S])ring, Worthy Prince was 
given to "Whitey"' Crowley to train, and the 
horse did finely. On July 22 he was given his 
first race, at Montreal, there being fourteen 
starters in the event. It was handy, however, 
for Worthy Prince to win, he heading the 
summary in straight heats and getting a 
record of 2:14 1-4. That year he won six of 
his nine races, and lowered the trotting rec- 
ord for Marshfield track to 2:141-4. 

In 1914 he was given to James O'Brien to 
train at Rockdale Park, and won three 
straight races, lowering his record to 2:11 1-4 
over a half-mile track, when he was sold for 
Sfo.ccn. by a large margin the most money 
ever secured for a horse by any member of 
•be Dorchester Club. "Long Shot" Co.x later 




SUNSHINE. 2:15 1-4 

A Blue Ribbon Performer in Matinees of Dorchester Club. Owned and Driven by 

James F. Lvnch 




C. E. R., 2:21 1-4 

Pacing a Fast Heat at Franklin Field Speedway. Owned and Driven by 

John H. Burns 



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worked Worthy Prince in 2:051-2, at Co- 
lumbus, the last half in i ;oi 1-2. 

At the New York sale, of 1914, 1\It. Gnmn 
i;urrhased three horses for his stable, Keller- 
ville l-ad, 2:121-4, he got for fun on the 
speedway, but the two youngsters he expects 
will be heard from on the turf. Alfred King 
(2), 2:28 1-4, by King Bellini, 2:12 1-4, trotted 
a quarter at Combination Park, right ofif the 
cars from New York, in 31 seconds. In the 
Summer he had trialed in 2:15, last half in 
I :o4 1-2. Frantell, the two-year-old colt by 
Walnut Hall, 2 :o8 1-4, is in $85,000 worth of 
futurities. He has a very neat way of going. 
Experts figure that Mr. Grififin secured a cou- 
ple of prizes. Mr. Griffin resides at 153 Har- 
vard Street. Dorchester, Mass. 



1 orses that he owned and raced are Queenie, 

2 -.22 1-4, and Ben G., who, although without 
an official record, was known to have plenty 
of speed. ]\lr. Griffin resides at 175 Ashmont 
Street, Dorchester, Mass. 



GEORGE H. GREENWOOD 

George H. Greenwood was born in West- 
boro, Mass., in 1853, and was graduated from 
the schools of his native town. He came to 
Boston in 1876 and opened a retail tobacco 
store in Boylston St., near Washington St., 
where he remained for thirty-five years. He 
then disposed of this business and entered the 
real estate business, locating at 2 \\'ashington 
St., Roxbury. He was a charter member of 
the Dorchester Driving Club, the first two 
years being on the board of directors, and 
since that time filling the office of secretary. 
He also is a member of the Masons. 

Mr. Greenwood has been the right man in 
the right place for the Dorchester Club, and 
his strenuous work in their behalf has always 
been fully appreciated. He rarely misses a 
meeting of the club, and has a very clear con- 
ception of what should be done in unraveling 
any of the knotty problems that frequently 
arise. He has never been partial to owning a 
fast trotter or pacer, but has taken his pleas- 
ure on the road with a trim-going gelding 
named Prince G. So many years was Prince 
G. owned by Mr. Greenwood that he certainly 
became a member of the family. Mr. Green- 
wood resides at 56 Melville Ave., Dorchester, 
Mass. 



GEORGE E. GRIFFIN 

George E. Griffin was born in Lowell, 
Mass., in 185 1, and received his education iri 
the public schools of that city. He came to 
Boston and entered the grocery and pro- 
vision business in 1885, being a junior mem- 
ber of the firm Jaques & Griffin, located in 
Ashmont. Mr. Griffin was one of the original 
members of the Dorchester Club, and an 
active worker on several of the committees, 
the principal one being the entertainment 
committee. He is also a member of the I. O. 
O. F. and Roval Arcanum. Among the 



JOSEPH W. BURNS 

Joseph W. Bl'rxs was born in Freetown, 
Prince Edward Island, and attended the 
schools of his native place. He came to 
Boston in i8g8, going to work as a carpenter. 
Of late years he has been foreman for the 
firm of Cruckshank & Russell, builders. He 
joined the Dorchester Driving Club in 1910, 
and has never missed a meeting, nor scarcely 
missed a matinee race, being one of the first 
on the track and ready to meet all comers. 

Among the horses he owned is the hand- 
some trotting mare, Dot, which was bred by 
his father, a well known horseman of Free- 
town, P. E. I. She was brought to Boston 
when two years old, and was sired by 
Brazilian, 2 :22 3-4, out of Lady Burns, trial 
2 :2D, by Westlawn ; second dam, Nellie B., 
by Gladstone, 2 :28 1-4. Dot was one of the 
leading trotters of the Franklin Field 
Speedway in 1913, being winner of one of 
the first prizes given for the season. She 
was a great drawing card in the matinees for 
five years, and won over 100 ribbons, besides 
many valuable prizes. Dot is the dam of two 
foals, Ralph Bingen, a handsome bay stallion 
Ijy Teddy Bingen, 2:15 1-4, son of Bingen, 
2 :cG 1-4, and Addie Echo, foaled in 1914, by 
Echo Todd, 2:26 1-4, by Todd, 2:14 3-4. 
Not only have Dot and Ralph Bingen speed, 
but each has won blue ribbons in the horse 
show ring. Mr. Burns resides at 32 Callen- 
der Street, Dorchester, ]\Iass. 



CALVIN MACDONALD 

Calvin M.\cDon.\ld was born in Gulf Shore, 
Cumberland County, N. S., and received his 
education in the local schools of that place. 
About twenty years ago he went over the 
Rocky ?. fountains, working in Tacoma, 
Seattle. Port Blake, and Minot, North 
Dakota. He first came to Boston in 1896, 
and entered the employ of the Boston 
Elevated Railroad. In 1903 he went to New 
York and remained there three years. He 
started in business for himself, in 1909, as a 
piano mover, which business he is still 
occupied in, at 564 Washington Street, 
Boston, He joined the Dorchester Driving 
Club in 1912, and also belongs to the Order 
of Odd Fellows. 

From the time he was a young man, Mr. 
MacDonald was interested in owning a fast 
horse. Twenty years ago he had Fred 
Ellison, which was noted in Nova Scotia as 



David M. Biggs and His Horses 




ANNIE M. (3) Racing MARY B (2) 

(Inset— J. W. BIGGS) MARY ANN and 6 Mos. Foal (Inset— D. M. BIGGS) 

GRACE B. ANNIE M. (3) to Halter 



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one of tlie fastest ice horses in that section. 
He then got hold of the mare, Nancy Belle, 
and later of Skyscraper, by Uncle Sim, 
2:20 1-2, and Jenny Deane, a daughter oi 
Gen. Williams, 2 :32, that had a reputation 
as a brush horse to road. 

Mr. MacDonald's racing on tlie Franklin 
Field Speedway has been with the Kentucky 
bred trotter. Lister W. (3), 2:25 1-4, whici 
record he obtained at Lexington, Kv. He 
secured a matinee record of i :o6 1-4 at 
Franklin Field Speedway, and won twenty- 
five blue ribbons and only one white in two 
seasons. He has also in his collection four 
special blues, one special red, and one special 
white, and a silver cup for points, that he 
won in matinee victories. In 1914 he won 
the first race of the season at the speedway. 
On November 7, of the same year, he won 
the first five-heat race ever given under the 
auspices of the Dorchester Club, defeating 
Hattie B., Bingen Light, George M., and 
The i\Ionk in three heats, finishing fourth 
the first one and then outracing the field the 
next two. Showing the caliber of the horses 
in this race, the following week Bingen Light 
defeated his field in 1:061-2 and 1:071-4. 
In Lister W.'s matinee racing he has defeated 
some of the stars of the speedway, among the 
number being Nut Boy and Knox Gelatine 
Baby. 

Mr. MacDonald is interested in the black 
fox industry at P. E. I., and owns profitable 
mining properties in Colorado. He has a 
Summer residence at Pugwash, N. S., the 
barns and stable being surrounded by shade 
trees an.d called one of the prettiest locations 
in that country, and has also a farm at Gull 
Shore, N. S. Mr. MacDonald resides at 2; 
Dartmouth Street, Boston, Mass. 



JAMES CAMPBELL 

James Campbell is one of the oldest and 
best known horsemen in New England, he 
having for years had a racing stable, both of 
the light harness horse and of the runners. 
For thirty years he has been engaged in the 
restaurant and liquor business at 41 Merrimac 
Street, Boston, one of the favorite resorts 
for horsemen of Greater Boston. 

Of the fast horses owned and campaigned 
by Mr. Campbell was Sclavonic, 2 :09 3-4, 
which was raced by the veteran driver, J. J. 
Bowen. He was one of the gamest pacers that 
ever looked through a bridle and his remark- 
able races at Dover, Rigby, and Providence 
will long stand out in the annals of the pro- 
fessional turf. In his race at Readville, 
Sclavonic was separately timed in 2 :o6 1-4. 
Celibate, 2:121-4, was another good horse 
for Mr. Campbell, this trotter's best efforts 



being in his winning races at Hartford, 
Providence and Readville. Celibate was in 
the hands of Trainer John Cheney. Among 
others campaigned by Mr. Campbell was 
J. C, 2:22 1-4; Toddy C, 2:29 1-4; Icelander, 
2:291-4, the latter being one of his early 
ventures. Mr. Campbell resides at 56 Es- 
mond Street, Dorchester, Mass. 



JOHN F. DUNN 

John F. Dunn was born in South Boston 
in 1873 and attended the Lawrence Grammar 
School. He started work in Boston in 1885 
w^ith John Guild, a baker. In 1900 he began 
business for himself, opening a bakery at 
182 F Street, South Boston, where he is at 
present located. He joined the Dorchester 
Gentlemen's Driving Club in 1906 and has 
served on the board of directors. He is also 
a member of five other clubs or societies, and 
therefore, is what might, be called a "jiner." 
Mr. Dunn has taken part in the matinees at 
Franklin Field Speedway, the best known 
horse that he raced being Prince of Monaco, 
2 :39 1-4. Mr. Dunn resides at 35 Emerson 
Street, South Boston. 



ALDEN H. WOODARD 

Alden H. Woodard was born in Lowell, 
Mass., in 1849, ^"d attended the Colburn 
School of that city. His first work was for his 
father, Herman Woodard, clerking in the 
Lowell House, Causeway Street, Boston, in 
1867. He started in business for himself by 
opening a public training stable at Mystic 
Park, Medford, in 1871, where he remained 
about twenty years. He then became half 
owner of the Lowell House, where he first 
worked as clerk. At present he is in business 
at 12 Washington Street, Boston. Mr. Wood- 
ard belongs to the Knights of Pythias. 

It is to the horse business, particularly, that 
this sketch of Mr. Woodard's life will re- 
fer. "Ollie," as he is known to his friends, 
had a wide and brilliant career as a trainer 
and driver. He was the midget of the sulky, 
weighing only 120 pounds, or perhaps a lit- 
tle less, it being nothing for him to pack 
away over 30 pounds of lead to make the 
150 pounds, to rule, when he raced. This 
lead he wore in a belt, containing ten pounds, 
in specially made boots, each with seven 
pounds in the sole, while the Iialance was 
placed in the sulky cushion. 

( )llie was a mere lad, in Lowell, when he 
drove his first race, a match at Mystic Park, 
which he won. During this time, too, he 
rode running horses in match races. Later 
he l)ecame noted the country over for his 
success with the Lambert breed of trotters. 

Ollie was one of the few drivers of that 




J. C;. MACOMBER 

First President of Ouannapowitt Club 

1907-08 




EDWIN M. SHANNON 
One of the Old Mystic Park Trainers 





ROYCE E. COLLINS 
Who Could Drive a Cheap Trotter Well 



LYLE STERLING 
Who Had Great Success with Woodshed, 2:09 1-4 



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period who went to California from the East, 
there being no railroad over the Rockies 
when he \-isited the Golden Coast, but one 
was completed while he was there, so he was 
enabled to return by rail. He refers to a 
race he drove in Sacramento, Cal., when he 
thought the starting judge gave the word. 
The other drivers in the race pulled up, as 
the bell was rung for a recall, but Ullie kept 
on, to win an easy heat. The judges con- 
tinued ringing the bell, and a Mexican rode 
a pony up to him nearing the quarter-pole, 
quietly telling him the judges desired his 
presence at the wire. 

Ollie plainly told the Mexican to go to 
the hot placed He was going around the 
track and was then on his way. Imagme his 
surprise when the Mexican quickly threw a 
lasso over the horse's head, bringing him to 
a stop; then he pulled the horse around by 
the lasso on his neck, and led him back to 
the wire, with "Little Ollie," mad as a wet 
hen, but obliged to sit tight and ride to 
where the Mexican intended taking him. 

With the Lambert family Ollie headed 
summary after summary of the races wdiich 
he, for vears, contested in. There was the 
stallion Aristos, 2 -.27 3-4, which he first made 
prominent on the turf and later the horse 
made good in the stud, for in those days 
2:30 speed was not alwavs required to win 
good racing events. Old-time horsemen 
readilv bring to memory the consistent trot- 
ters John Hall, 2:241-4; Lady Foxie, 
2:24 1-4, and others Ollie campaigned. Then 
later came R. D. F., 2:21 1-4, who was nearly 
invincible for several seasons over the half- 
mile tracks of New England, Xew York 
state, and Canada. There was the pacer, 
Brightwood, 2:19 1-4, one of the few pacers 
OUie handled, but he Droved just as adept 
in racing a wiggler as with a trotter. There 
were scores of others the "little man" cam- 
paigned, but the ones mentioned will show 
his success as a trainer and driver. 

After retiring from the training ranks Ol- 
lie did not forget his old love, but owned 
and had raced for him the trotters. Rex. 
2:25 1-4; Frenzie L., 2:14 1-2, and Ornament, 
2:181-4. In company with John May, who 
owned Pilot Knox. 2:193-4, he had a green 
mare in the string of John Porter, at South 
Framingham, jNIass., the season of 1914, that 
could show a lot of speed. ]\Ir. Woodard re- 
sides at 78 Highland Road, Somerville, INIass. 



w.th the wholesale paper firm of Monroe 
Paper Co., and is now employed by the Bos- 
ton Elevated Street Railway as division 
superintendent. IMr. Wilkins joined the Dor- 
chester Driving Club in 1907, and is also a 
member of the Union Lodge of Masons, Xew 
England Street Railway Club, the American 
Street Railway Association, Neponset 
Brotherhood, Boston Elevated Mutual Aid 
Association, Metropolitan Mutual Aid 
Association, Division Xo. 3, Boston Elevated 
Mutual Aid Association, Ashmont Improve- 
ment Association, South Dorchester Im- 
provement Association, and L'pham's Cor- 
ner Improvement Association. Mr. Wilkins 
i; on the board of directors for the Dorches- 
ter Board of Trade, and fills the same 
pcsition for the ]\Iassachusetts Co-operative 
Bank He resides at 1515 Dorchester 
Avenue, Dorchester, Mass. 



FRANK I. WILKINS 

Fr.\xk I. WiLKixs was born in Salem, 
i\Iass.. in 1862, and received his education in 
the Prescott and Winthrop schools, Charles- 
town. He started work in Boston, in 1879, 



JAMES F. LYNCH 

James F. Lynch was born in South Boston 
in 1870, and was graduated from the gram- 
mar and evening high schools of that section. 
His first work was for his father in the barrel 
business in 1885. He started for himself in 
1905, following the same line, and locating 
at 47-53 Champney Street, South Boston. 
He is a member of the Dorchester Gentle- 
men's Driving Club, and is one of the regu- 
lars in attending the matinees at the Franklin 
Field Speedway. The horses he has raced 
are May Shedd and Sunshine, 2:15 1-4, both 
being well known in matinee circles. Mr. 
Lynch resides at 13 Howe Avenue. South 
Boston, Mass. 

DAVID M. BIGGS 

David M. Biggs was born in Little River, 
Kent County, N. B., in 1863, and attended the 
schools of his native town. His first work 
was for E. B. Wadsworth, in Winthrop, ]\Iass., 
as foreman in the livery stable. This was in 
1880. Seven years later he started in busi- 
ness for himself, doing general contracting 
and teaming in Dorchester. At present he has 
added to his former line the sale of sand and 
gravel, his business address being 60-ioS 
^larsh Street, Dorchester. 

Mr. Biggs was a charter member of the 
Dorchester Club and has held numerous offi- 
cial fKDsitions, in 1914 filling the chair of sec- 
ond vice-president. He became a member of 
the Old Colony Club in 19 12. He is an Odd 
Fellow. Knight of Pvthias, a member of the 
United .States Fat lien's Club and several 
other social orders. 

\Miile there can be no doubt of Mr. Biggs 
being eligible to the order of Fat Men, yet he 




SISTER PATCH, 2:26 1-4 
The Champion for Two Seasons at Franklin Field Speedway Jogging to the Starting 
Stand for the Opening Heat. Owned and Driven by W. H. Young 




SUSIE F., 2:20 1-4 

Franklin Field Speedway Trotting Champion and Cup Winner in 1904. Owned and 

Driven by J. RoUin Stuart, Jr. 



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has always derived a lot of pleasure in mat- 
inee racing, and in driving his own horses. Con- 
sidering his weight handicap, he is really a 
good driver of trotters, being light-handed and 
adept in keeping his horse on his gait and 
stride. His coolness and excellent nerve have 
won him many a good race. About his first 
trotter was Authentic, 2:161-4, a winner of 
numerous prizes and ribbons in the early days 
of the Dorchester Club, while Grace B., one 
that he raced at Franklin Field Speedway in 
1913, was the winner of second prize for 
trotters that season. 

Mr. Biggs, though, takes great interest in 
his young and promising group of trotters, all 
from the brood mare, Mary Ann, by Allie- 
wood, 2:09 1-2, dam Emma D., 2:15 3-4, the 
oldest being Annie M., three years old and a 
prize winner in the races of 1914, by Baron 
May, 2 :o7 1-4, the next Mary B., two years 
old, by Forest, and her last being Annie B., 
foaled in 1914, by Gun Metal, 2:16 1-4. Mary 
Ann is now in foal by Aquilin, 2:19 3-4. Mr. 
Biggs resides at 60 Marsh Street, Dorchester. 
Mass. 

LYLE STERLING 

Lyle Sterling was born in Blooming Val- 
ley, Pa., in 1867. When a small boy his par- 
ents removed to Abington, 111., at which 
place he received his education. He first came 
to Boston in 1883, and entered the employ of 
R. M. and L. J. Sturtevant, who were en- 
gaged in the meat business. A year later, he 
went West and brought back East the noted 
trotting stallion, J. R. Shedd, 2:19 1-4. He 
started in business for himself in 1901, open- 
mg a public training stable at Mystic Park. 
He is now connected with the Somerville Fire 
Department. Mr. Sterling is a member of the 
Fellsway Driving Club, and also belongs to 
the Knights of Pythias. 

Mr. Sterling's turf career as a trainer and 
driver was an extended one. During the years 
he was on the turf he was very successful, 
winning many races. Among those readily 
brought to mind, that he campaigned, are 
Esperanza, 2:10 1-4; Annie Shedd, 2:14 1-2; 
A. S. L., 2:16 1-4; Alice Wilkes, 2:21 1-4; 
Elsie Mac (i), 2:473-4; (5), 2:223-4; J. R. 
Shedd, Jr., 2:30; Dr. Franklin, 2:24 1-2, 
Stephen W., 2:13 1-4; Special Boy, 2:121-4, 
and Woodshed, 2:09 1-4. 

It was with this little pacer, Woodshed, 
that Mr. Sterling's reputation extended far 
and wide. In the six years that he raced him 
over mile and half-mile tracks, and in never 
a class slower than the 2:12, he was only twice 
back of the money. Each season he began 
racing in June, and kept constantly at it until 
the snow ilew. 



Woodshed was a prime favorite with the 
horsemen and patrons of the race meetings 
wherever he was started. He could always be 
relied upon to put up a very stiff race, and a 
horse had to outclass him in order to gain 
the verdict. With all of his hard, grueling 
races, the little chestnut was made of such 
material that he absolutely seemed to thrive 
upon it. Later, Mr. Sterling won a whole lot 
of good races w-ith the gelding. Special Boy, 
and there are today many of the veteran race- 
goers who well remember the race at Old 
(Jrchard in which Mr. Sterling gave Esper- 
anza his record of 2:10 1-4. Mr. Sterling re- 
sides at 380 Somerville Ave., Somerville, 
Mass. 



ROYCE E. COLLINS 

RovcE E. Collins was born in Orwell, Vt., 
in i8fi6, and attended the district schools of 
h's native town. He came to Boston the Fall of 
1889, and took the position of assistant super- 
intendent, under W. A. "Pod" Skinner, at the 
Bates Farm in Watertown, Mass. In 1896 
he entered into business for himself, opening 
a public training stable at Combination Park. 
He remained there for several years and then 
entered the employ of Commodore Perkins as 
assistant trainer under Jack Trout. Mr. Col- 
lins is a Mason, having joined the Independent 
No. 10 at Orwell, Vt., when a few months 
over 21 years of age. He resides in West 
.Somerville, Mass. 

Among the most prominent horses that he 
has campaigned and given records to are the 
following: Squeezer, 2:133-4; Tennehinch, 
2:161-4; Jimmie B., 2:111-4; Diversion, 
^:i3 1-4; Rex, 2:13 1-2; Oriole, 2:18 1-2: 
Avis, 2:20 1-4, which cost only $90, and a 
season later was second in 2:13 1-2; J. M. B., 
2:263-4: Prince Megner, 2:21 ; Call, 2:18 1-4; 
Alto, 2:21; Jim, 2:27 1-4; Lily, 2:19 1-2; 
Palmetto Prince, 2:11; Doctor L., 2:21 1-4; 
Thad, 2:29 1-4; Dumont, 2:20 1-4. During 
Mr. Collins' turf career he never had a horse 
that cost more than $500, which was the 
price paid for Tennehinch. Squeezer, the geld- 
ing that won many races over the New Eng- 
land tracks, cost only $450. 

The first race that Mr. Collins drove in 
^Massachusetts occurred over the Worcester 
half-mile track, and he defeated a large field 
of horses in seven heats with Prince Megner. 
At the Saugus race track he won a race with 
Diversion over Colleen, 2:133-4, the latter 
lieing a top-heavy favorite. Before the first 
heat was started, Mr. Collins stood to win 
$2.oco on his mare. On account of Colleen 
being such a large favorite, there was a big 
kick made by her backers that the race was 




KLX ^by Electricity) 
Franklin Field Speedway Cup Winner for Trotters in 1903. Owned and Driven by 
Albert Fellows 




BETTY FENNELL 
Winner of Seven Blue Ribbons Before She Was 22 Months of Age. Sired by Neno Bin- 
gen, 2:22 1-4; Dam Su Su, by Vatican, 2:29 1-4. Owned and 
Driven by John Fennell 



266 The Driving Clubs of Greater Boston 

, , • , 11 1 ^11 Dover N H Tiily 30, 1898—2:13 class, trotting; 

not on the level, and the judges declared all "p^'^se, $500. 
bets and pools on the event off, thus depriving Squeezer, b. g., by McEwen (R. Col- 

Mr. Collins of a nice bit of change. lins, ,- • •^-^^-^-^■(Tiie;) ll^Ul^l 
At another time Mr. Collins was racing at ^ ^^ ^^ b. g., untraced (Loomis) i 3 i -' 3 3 3 3 

Bradford N H., against old Charley Taylor, Nicola, b! g..by'Guardsman (Knapp) 4441-2244 

then in his Qoth-odd year. Mr-. Collins had f^J^^^McGregor^b. s^ (Con^^^^^^^ . . 3 4 dr 

Diversion and Mr. Taylor the pacing gelding, !^^^ ^^^ -^ ^ ^^^^^^^ 7 6 dr 

Robert B.. 2:12. In the first heat Robert B. Time— 21(2 1-2, 2:141-2, 2:12^-4. -'-141-4. 2:141-4. 

made four long runs, and finished on a run, 2:151-2, 2:171- 2. 2:18. 

with Diversion lapped on him at the wire ^ SHANNON 

Before the start of the heat, M^ , Collm ^^^^^ ^^,^^^ ,^^^^^ .^^ p^^^^_ 
had invested all the money he had n the J^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^, ^j^^ 1^^^, 
world that his mare would win that heat. He mout . , 5/ ^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^.^^ .^ 
went into the judges" stand to call the atten- 'f^°')°- ^^- ^ ^ Shannon, 
tion of the officials to the long ^ns taken by ^^ for h s . ^__^^ .^ ^^^^. ._^ Portsmouth. 
Robert B., though satisfied in his own mind wno^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^_ 
that he would be awarded the heat, but went In i^««-^ne ^^^^^^^^ ^ ^^^^^V ^. ^^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^_ 
up simply to make it safe. ... . , con Park In 1883 he opened a public 
Much to his surprise, the starting judge said ^^^■^- ^^^^^^ f^r himself, at Beacon Park, 
that he was amazed that a young, bright husky .^^^\^ remained until 1887, when he re- 
looking fellow like Mr. Collins should come ^^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^.^^.^ p^^j. j^^ ^g^, j^^ entered 
up into the judges' stand and make a com- ^^^^ ^^^ ^^ g^^^^^^^^, Hodgdon, of Meredith, 
plaint against a man driving against him wHo ^^ ^ ^^^-^^^^ j^^^^^^ j^^ trained for one year, 
was over 90 years of age. ^^ ^g ' j,g became assistant trainer for J. J- 
Then Mr. Collins said. "I appreciate :\lr. g^^^.^^^ ^^ Mvstic Park, where he remained 
Tavlor fully as much as I think you men do ^^^^^j ^'^^^^ ^^^_ Bowen then retiring from 
in the stand ; but, under my present financial ^^^^jj^i^gg ^jr. Shannon is now employed by 
condition, I cannot in due respect to myself ^j^^ Gushing Medical Supply Co.. 164 Canal 
afford to give him any money, either of what 5^^^^^^ Boston. 

I have bet to win on the heat, or a portion ot whUg identified on the turf as trainer and 

the purse. Now, if you judges think so high- ^,^j^^^^ ^^^_ Shannon raced T. L. D., 2:22 1-4; 

ly of Mr. Taylor, why wouldn't it be the best r^^^ Lambert. 2 :23 ; Falcon, Jr. (4), 2 :2i 3-4; 

scheme for vou to dig into your own pockets -j^^j^^^^ g^^^ 2:17 3-4; Dixie, 2:14 3-4; Nick, 

.and give him the difference between the first ^.^^ ^_^, q^^^^^ 2:25; Doctor, 2:16 1-2; 

and second nionev, instead of asking a poor ^^^^ ^j^^^^^ 2:19 1-4; Miller Boy, 2:14 1-2; 

driver like me to do so? Under compulsion y^y^^i^. Maid, 2:21 1-4, etc. Mr. Shannon re- 

1 am made to think that you are simply put- ^j^^^ ^^ ^^ Grafton Street, Arlington. Mass. 

ling your hand of charity into my pocket 

and robbing me to give something to Mr. WILLIAM H. YOUNG 
Tavlor." Willi.\m H. Young was born in Milton. 
In relating the occurrence later, Mr. Collins ^ass., in 1868, and attended the local schools 
said that the argument did not help matters. ^^ j^j^' ^^^^^y^ town. His first work was as a 
as old Charley Taylor ran his pacer a quarter ^^^^^ ^^^ gg,,^ §, q^^ Milton, in 1882. By 
of the way each heat and got first money. industrv and excellent business sagacity he 
Likely the biggest scoop ever turned by Mr. j^^^^^ ^^ jj^g position of manager of the con- 
Collins was at Dover, N. H., with the trotting ^p^,., ^^.i,e,., jt was purchased by the National 
"•elding. Squeezer, when he defeated a field biscuit Co.. in which place he still remains, 
of sev1;n horses, including the great stallion. jje joined the Dorchester Driving Club m 
BinCTen. 2:06 1-4. The event was won in eight ,r,c8 and has served on the board of direc- 
hears Mr. Collins winning the second, sixth ^^rs and as vice-president. He always owned 
and eighth ; Bingen grabbing off the fifth and .^ good road horse, one with speed, even 
seventh heats. back when brushing was popular on the 
One week later he again had Squeezer win River Street road. In the matinees at Frank- 
nin^ a seven-heat race at Old Orchard. The im Field Speedway he raced Cracker Kov 
horles finishing behind him were Tom Boy. with success, and later the good pacing mare. 
Success Ben H., Paddv D.. Webb. Dexter K. Sister Patch, 2:261-4, bvToe Patchen, 
and Lillian Wilkes So' creditable was the vie- 2:01 1-4, dam by Gambetta Wilkes._ She for 
torv of Squeezer at Dover, that the summary two seasons, was the pacine champion of tlie 
of the event is appended: course. Although joint holder of the record 





A. W. DAVIS 
Prominent in Promoting Horse Shows 



HERBERT GRAY 

Who Bought §400,000 Worth of Trotters 

for Thomas W. Lawson 




CHARLES D. WELLS 

Charter Member of Quannapowitt Club and 

Owner of the Prize Winning Mare, 

Border W. 



MARTIN J. HEALY 
A Live Wire of the Lynn Club 



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of \ :oo flat, she was the champion at the 
close of the season of 1914, of having raced 
the two fastest consecutive heats, in i :oo and 
I :oi 1-4. Mr. Young resides at 6 Medway 
Street, Dorchester, Mass. 

J. ROLLIN STUART, JR. 

J. RoLLiN Stuart, Jr.,, was born in Tarry- 
town, N. Y., in 1866, and, when a boy, went 
to Mihvaukee where his early education was 
gained. Coming to Boston he graduated 
from the English High School in 1884, and 
that year started to work as an errand boy 
for Whittemore, Woodbury & Co. In 1887, 
with others, he started the house of Pike, 
Ordway & Stuart, making blackings, shoe 
dressings, etc. This firm was incorporated in 
1890 as the Boston Blacking Co., with its 
office in Cambridge, Mass. 

Mr. Stuart became a member of the Dor- 
chester Gentlemen's Driving Club in 1901, 
and has served on the board of directors. He 
is also a Mason and belongs to several of the 
social clubs of Boston. In the matinee end 
of the club, Mr. Stuart was very prominent 
with his trotting mare, Susie F., 2:20 1-4, 
which, in 1904, won the silver cup offered for 
the trotter winning the most races on the 
speedway and, the following year, was the 
fastest trotter in the club. He also owned 
Dempsey. 2:10 1-4; Willie Robbs, 2:14; 
Little Edgar, 2:10 1-2, and Vixie Adams. 
Mr. Stuart resides at 561 \\'ard Street, New- 
ton Center, l\Tass. 



ALBERT FELLOWS 

Albert Fellows was born in Athens, Me., 
in 1849, ^"d received his education in the 
common schools and academy of that city. 
He came to Boston in 1872 and entered the 
employ of Henry E. Cobb & Co., grocers. 
Six; years later he began business for himself 
in tile same line, opening a store at 163 1 
Washington Street, where he remained fifteen 
years, then removing to Ashmont, where he 
iias been located twenty-two years. Mr. 
Fellows is one of the oldest members of the 
Dorchester Driving Club, of which he is a 
charter member. He succeeded R. S. Fitch in 
the office of treasurer, which he had held for 
seven years, to the close of 1914. He is alsc 
a member of the Dirigo, Odd Fellows, and r 
Mason. For many seasons he raced the 
gelding, Rex, on the speedway, and was a 
contender in all events in which he took part. 
Mr. Fellows resides at 73 Bailey Street, Dor- 
chester, Mass. 



schools in Great Shenogue, N. B. He came 
to P.oston in 1880, and went to work for 
Clark A. Wells, shoeing horses. He started 
in the horseshoeing business for himself in 
1889, in Reading, Mass., where he is still lo- 
cated. He was one of the charter members 
of the Quannapowitt Driving Club, and has 
been constant in attendance and a devotee of 
the matinee sport ever since the inception of 
the club, in 1907. Mr. Wells is an Odd Fel- 
low and belongs to the Pilgrim Fathers. 

In the matinee sport, he has owned, among 
others. Woodland, matinee record 2:20 1-4; 
Orrion Wilkes, matinee record 2:18 1-2; 
Bolivar, 2 :30, and Border W. The last named 
is the one he is now enjoying his favorite 
sport with. She is a very handsome, good 
gaited trotting mare, that would take a blue 
ribbon in high society for her conformation 
and her general good points. Mr. Wells' home 
is in Reading, Mass. 



CHARLES D. WELLS 
Charles D. Wells was born in Richi- 
busto, N. B., in 1862, and attended the 



MARTIN J. HEALY 

Martin J. Healy is a member of the Lynn 
and Ouannapowitt Driving Clubs and owner 
of the trotter Saranac, 2 114 1-4, that good son 
of Todd, which took his record over the 
Haverhill track in 1914. Mr. Healy has also 
owned a dozen or more other fast matinee 
performers. He bought Saranac, as a two- 
year-old, for $240, and has earned more than 
$2,000 with him. When a three-year-old, 
Saranac had six matinee races and dropped 
his winning time from i :2o to i :o7, in the 
half-mile matinee races of the Quannapowitt 
Club at Reading track. In 1914 Saranac 
broke the Rockdale Park trotting record, 
which had been held many years by Nelson, 
when he stepped the Peabody two-lap track, 
at a matinee meeting, against time, in 2 :i8. At 
the opening matinee of the Metropolitan Driv- 
ing Club's half-mile track, an invitation affair 
in whicli all of the Greater Boston clubs par- 
ticipated, Saranac was winner of his race and 
a handsome trophy cup. 

Mr. Healy has a big fruit business in 
Lynn and racing horses is his only pastime. 
In the last dozen years he has been a promi- 
nent figure in many of the leading interclub 
matinees of Greater Boston and his good 
natured wit has enlivened many a race. In 
the famous interclub meets of Greater Bos- 
ton, in which Lynn was so prominent, Mr. 
Healy drove many races for his club. With 
the pacer L^ncle Angus, 2:17 1-4, he won the 
day against Dorchester, at Rockdale Park, 
with considerable fun thrown in. Mi.xed- 
wood. 2:10 1-4: Widlar, 2:163-4; Hazel Dell, 
2:14 1-4; Peter Healy, Dare Devil, Jr., 
General Cord, Beauford Hall, Arthur Mc- 
Ivinney, and several others are among those 




POSTMAN, 2:13 3-4 
Favorite at Franklin Field Speedway. 
Owned by Charles N. Starratt 



BLANCHE WILKES 

One of the Trotting Stars of Dorchester Club. 

Owned and Driven by W. H. Noyes 












BARONESS TELL (3) (by Baron Review), 2:21 1-4 

Dam Lady K. Tell, Trial 2:14 1-4, Dam of Baron 

Tell (2), 2:29 1-4, by Axtell (3), 2:12. 

Owned by Lincoln Pedrick 



SUNSHINE, 2:15 1-4 

A Consistent Winner at Franklin Field Speedway. 

Owned and Driven by Alden Brings 



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The Driving Clubs of Greater Boston 



which Mr. Heal_y has owned at various times. 
Mr. Healy resides in West Lynn, Mass. 



JOHN FENNELL 

John Fennell was born in St. John, N. b., 
in 1856, and attended the schools of that city. 
In 1878 he came to Boston and became the 
manager, and was a partner with Thomas 
Furlong, wholesale liquor dealers. He 
started in the wholesale liquor business for 
himself in 1885, at 175 Devonshire Street, 
Boston, where he is still located. He joined 
the Dorchester Driving Club in 1906, and 
the Ouannapowitt Driving Club when it was 
organized. He also is a member of the 
Boston Lodge of Elks. 

Mr. Fennell has used for his matinee sport 
the trotter, Mickey, 2 :2o, and the high-bred 
filly, Betty Fennell, by Neno Bingen, 
2:22 1-4, dam Su S.u, by Vatican, 2 129 1-4, 
dam of Foxy Todd, Future Todd, Miss Todd, 
trial 2:131-2, and Sister Todd, for which 
$2,500 was refused. Her second dam was Ra- 
chel Russell, dam of Major Mason, 2:093-4; 
Major Morgan, 2:14; Nelly Mason, 2:14; 
Odilla, 2:24 1-2, by Woodford Abdallah. 
Ophelia M., daughter of Rachel Russell, 
produced Miss Ophelia, 2:09 1-4; George 
Onward, 2:23 1-4; Lady Tennyson, 2:17 1-2; 
Star Onward, 2:14; Mattie Studholm, 
2:29 1-4; Mark Onward, 2:13 1-4; Mark 
Night (4), 2:15 1-4, and Onfield, 2:22.' Bettv 
Fennell was naturally a fast filly. She won 
seven blue ribbons in the matinees of the 
Ouannapowitt Club up to the time she was 
twenty-two months old. When a three-year- 
old, with little training, she turned the Read- 
ing half-mile track in 2:28, and the last 
quarter was in 31 1-4 seconds. Mr. Fennell 
resides at 54 Virginia St., Dorchester, Mass. 



the age of twelve, and from there he went 
to Hanover, Mass. In 1874, at eighteen year.s 
of age, he started in the teaming and con- 
tracting business for himself in Hanover, 
having only one horse to begin w;ith, and 
with which business he is still occupied, and 
also has a milk route. His residence is at 102 
W"illard St., East Milton, Mass., where he has 
lived since 1891. He joined the Dorchester 
Gentlemen's Driving Club in 1907, and has 
been active on the committees. He has al- 
ways been prominent in the matinees at 
Franklin Field Speedway and in the Winter 
racing at Mattapan. Among the horses he has 
owned can be remembered Sunshine, 2:15 1-4, 
trial 2:10, and a half on the Dorchester 
Speedway in i :04. She stepped a quarter 
over the Mattapan Speedway, the Winter of 
1912, in 32 1-4 seconds. 



LINCOLN PEDRICK 

Lincoln Pedrick was born in Marblehead, 
Mass., in 1859, and was graduated from the 
public schools of Lynn, Mass. In 1875 he 
entered the retail boot and shoe business in 
Lynn, in the employ of C. A. Wentworth. In 
1883, Mr. Pedrick started in the boot and 
shoe business for himself, selling both whole- 
sale and retail. He is now an auctioneer, his 
])lace of business being at 38 Central Ave., 
Lynn. Mr. Pedrick joined the Gentlemen's 
Driving Club of Lynn in 1910, and has served 
on the racing committee. 

Mr. Pedrick has been one of the promi- 
nent members in the matinee racing at Rock- 
dale Park, Peabody. Among those which he 
has been successful with are Lord of Quality, 
2:21 1-4; Widlar, 2:16 3-4; Willie John, 
2:21 1-4, winner of the time cup in the Lynn 
Club's season of matinee racing of 1912- 
1913. One that Mr. Pedrick feels very proud 
of, and has shown him a lot of speed for the 
limited amount of handling she has had, is 
the three-year-old filly. Baroness Tell, by 
Baron Review, 2:21 1-4, out of Lady K. Tell, 
trial of 2:14 1-4, and the dam of Baron Tell 
(2), 2:29 1-4. Lady K. Tell was by Axtell 
(3), 2:12, dam by Belle K., a daughter of 
Dr. Herr. Belle K. produced Herr Tell, 
2:17 1-4. Baroness Tell vi'as bred by Benja- 
min Kinsley, Terre Haute, Ind., and is excep- 
tionally good looking, and her gait, manners 
and speed are enough to convince anybody of 
her future, when started for a turf career. 
Mr. Pedrick resides in Lynn, Mass. 

ALDEN BRIGGS ■ 

Alden Briggs was born in North Peni- JOHN B. CHADBOURNE 

broke, Mass., in 1855, and was graduated John B. Ch.\dbouene, who resides at 54 
from the public schools of his native town. Neponset Ave., Hyde Park, Mass., and is 
His first work was on a farm in Pembroke, at engaged in the coal, coke and charcoal busi- 



WILLIAM H. NOYES 

William H. Noyes was born in North Da- 
kota, in 1885, and attended the schools in that 
state. When eighteen years old he went to 
work for his father, who was in the coal busi- 
ness at II Hamlet St., Dorchester. With the 
death of his father, he succeeded to the busi- 
ness, which he still continues to run. He is 
a member of the Dorchester Driving Club, 
and among the horses that he raced over the 
Franklin Field Speedway were Gladys M., 
2:21 3-4, Blanche Wilkes, The Monk, and 
Pauline Wilkes, with a trial of 2:18 1-4, Mr. 
Noyes resides in Dorchester, Mass. 



WELL KNOWN MEMBERS OF THE DORCHESTER DRIVING CLUB 





JiDGAR O. HADDOCK 



ADNA T. WHEII.OCK 



PI I I It ,1. MI/.CiKRAID 







EDWARD B. SWETT 



CAREY KEITH 



EZRA S. HARRIS 




A. M. NEWBERT 



FRANK L. ROBBINS 



SOLLY WOLFSON 



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ness in West Quincy, Mass., was one of the 
early members of the Old Colony and Dor- 
chester Gentlemen's Driving Clubs. Of all the 
horses that Mr. Chadbourne has owned, his 
favorite was Lyndhurst, that was capable of 




LYNDllLRST 

A Prize Cup Winner. Owned and Driven by 

John B. Chadbourne 



racing matinee heats in time around i :io. 
While owned by Mr. Chadbourne, she won 
four silver cups, besides a number of bhvi 
ribbons. She took the first prize time cup on.' 
season at Dorchester, and the same year won 
second prize at the Weymouth Fair. She wa-^ 
sired by Autograph, 2:16 1-2. 



A. M. JOHNSON 

A. M. Johnson was born in Nova Scotia, 
m 1863, where he received his school educa- 
tion. His first work in Boston was a car- 
penter for Lock & Flint, in 1884. In 1889 he 
started in the buildinQ- and contracting busi- 
ness for himself in Dorchester, and is at pres- 
ent engaged in real estate and insurance, hav- 
ing been located at 1468 Dorchester Ave. since 
1897. He joined the Dorchester Driving Club 
in 1902. He has served on the board of direc- 
tors, was vice-president, and then president 
the years of 1910-11-12, he being the only 
president to serve three terms since the incep- 
tion of the club. He is also a member of the 
Odd Fellows, Master Workmen, the Dorches- 
ter Board of Trade and Massachusetts Real 
Estate Exchange. 

During Mr. Johnson's administration the 
quarter-mile track at the Franklin Field 
Speedway was extended to a half-mile course, 
a new grandstand for the benefit of the spec- 
tators was built, a new judges' stand and one 
also for the presiding judges erected. All of 
this necessitated more than ordinary execu- 



tive ability, as it meant getting the Citv of 
Boston to come to the front with appropria- 
tions sufficient to defray all expenditures. 

Mr. Johnson has always held a leading 
place in the speedway events of the Dorches- 
ter Club, and, were he only to have owned 
and raced the noted trotting gelding, Ralph 
Wick, 2:13 1-4, it would have placed his name 
with the foremost. Ralph Wick was without 
doubt one of the very best known horses in 
this country. During his professional career 
on the turf he won more races over half-mile 
tracks than any trotter ever known. It was 
Ralph Wick that ex-Mayor Fitzgerald drove 
at the opening of the half-mile speedway at 
Franklin Field, winning in I :o6. 

Among some of the others that ]Mr. John- 
son has owned and driven in the matinee and 
interclub meets are Belmont, 2 128 1-2 ; Rex, 
the trotter that gave him a whole lot of sport 
and was a hard proposition for all he met in 
his class; Alfretta D., 2:i(j 1-4: Prince of 
Monica, Kremella, 2:18 3-4. Mr. Johnson 
resides at 106 Melville Ave., Dorchester, ]Mass. 



RILEY G. CROSBY 

RiLEV G. Crosby was born in Yarmouth, 
N. S., in 1874, at which place he attended 
the public schools. When thirteen years of 
age he shipped before the mast and followed 
the sea for five years. In 1892 he went to 
Lynn, Mass., and apprenticed himself to learn 
the trade of brick mason with the firm of 
N. D. Davison & Co. He started in business 
for himself, in 1896, by building frame houses 
for speculation and taking sub-contracts in 
mason work, one of his first jobs being the 
laying of the brick in the public bathhouse 
at Crescent Beach. Mr. Crosby entered th'i 
firm of McDonald & Joslin Co., contractors 
and builders, as secretary of the corporation, 
in 1898. 

He became a member of the Dorchester 
Driving Club in 1896, of the Metropolitan 
Club in 1913, and of the Old Colony Club in 
1914. He is also a member of the fraternal or- 
der of Odd Fellows. With the Dorchester 
Club he has served on the race committee, 
board of directors, second vice-president, and 
president in the years 1913-14. 

Mr. Crosby has the reputation of having 
owned and taken part in more matinee races 
than any other member of the Dorchester 
Club, besides having participated in 21 inter- 
club meets. The list of horses with fast rec- 
ords that have occupied stalls in his stable, 
and were owned and driven by Mr. Crosby, 
almost looks like the reading of the Year 
Book. In partiality, Mr. Crosby will fre- 
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owned with moderate records, preferring 
them to the crackajacks that have stepped 
faster than the 2:10 mark. 

One of the very best that ever stepped over 
the Franklin Field Speedway was Mr. Cros- 
by's pacuig gelding. Bunker Hill, 2:13 3-4, 
that secured the five-heat race record in an 
interclub meet against the Metropolitan Club. 
Opposed to him was Phoebon W., 2 :o8 3-4, 
owned and driven by \V. J. Furbush, the con- 
test of five heats averaging 30 seconds to a 
heat. Each of the pacers had won two heats, 
and in the deciding one the presiding judge 
announced Phoebon W. the winner ; later the 
judges decided that Bunker Hill had won the 
race. To overcome this discrepancy in deci- 
sions, the Dorchester Club otflcials generously 
awarded to the owners of Bunker Hill and 
Phoebon W. a silver cup, so that each man 
points w'th pride to having won the fastest 
five-heat race over the speedway. 

\\'ith Miss Riggen, 2:14 1-4, ]\Ir. Crosby 
holds the seven-heat record over the old quar- 
ter-mile speedway at Franklin Field, get- 
ting it the day he defeated Capt. Hall and 
Miss Ormond. Then with B. S. Dillon, 
2:14 1-4. he holds the three-heat record for 
the quarter-mile course, securing that the 
afternoon he defeated Rondo, 2:14 3-4, 
which was the champion for several years on 
the speedway, and Mr. Crosby had to buy 
more than a half dozen pacers before getting 
one capable of beating him. 

Then can be brought to mind Nellie. 
2 -.26 1-4 : A'ictor, 2 ■.2<) 1-4 ; Riley G., 2 124 1-2 ; 
Prince (trial), 2:27; Annie Lee, 2:07 1-4; 
Maxfield, that is credited with winning heats 
in 32 seconds; Lizzie Simms, 2:18; Crispin, 
that stepped quarters in 30 seconds ; Rose- 
mont, 2:21 1-4, one of the gamest that ever 
looked through a bridle and honest as the day 
is long; lone, 2:17 1-4; Postman, 2:13 3-4; 
and a half-interest in Grace G., 2 :o5 1-4. 

In 1914 Mr. Crosby enjoyed the matinees 
and a few of the professional races with the 
gelding. Jack Bingen, 2:22 1-4. He had a 
lot of fun with him in amateur sport, hav- 
ing been rarely beaten at Franklin Field 
Speedway, and on Dorchester Day May- 
or Curley won with him in i :o4 1-2. In 
his intercity matinee racing. Jack Bingen 
defeated the best trotters of the r)ld Colony 
Club, viz., Katherine R., Higgins, Kaldar and 
Catherine C. In the interclub meet agamst 
Fellsway, on May 30, he also won, and m the 
interclub meet over the Charles River Speed- 
way against the Mets, he got third place. This 
record was a very commendable one. Mr. 
Crosby resides at 2iZ Boulevard Terrace, All- 
ston, Mass. 



J. W. McENANY 

J. W. McEnanv was born in Burlington, 
\'{.. in 1 85 1, and attended the schools at 
Pittsford, \'t., and I^Iiddlebury, \'t. He came 
to Boston in 1868 and, when but seventeen 
years of age, started in the butter and egg 
business for himself in what was then Union 
Market. In 1883 he started in the trucking 
business, which he has conducted since, and 
is now located at 15 Fulton Street, Boston. 
He is the owner of some of the finest horses 
owned in the trucking business in Boston, his 
two and four-horse teams having taken many 
blue ribbons in the annual work-horse 
parade, held on May 30th each year, once in 
particular winning a gold medal with his 
four-horse team. 

Mr. McEnany joined the Dorchester 
Driving Club in 1902, and has been on sev- 
eral of the important committees. He is also 
a member of the Boston Lodge of Elks, and 
of the \'ermont Association. While he has 
owned several fast driving horses, his favorite 
was tlie mare. Dimple, with which he stood 
ready to meet any of the fastest horses in the 
club in a friendly brush down the speedway. 
Mr. McEnanv resides at 80 Edson Street, 
Dorchester, ]\Iass. 

GEORGE A. LAW 

George A. Law was born in Bolton, Mass., 
in 1855. He attended the Medford schools, 
his parents having moved there when he was 
a mere lad His first work in Boston was in 
1870. for the American Bank and Note Co. 
In 1872 he started in business for himself, 
running a fish market in Arlington. At pres- 
ent he is in the hack, boarding and livery busi- 
ness in Arlington, having been in the same 
stable which he opened in 1888. In 1906 he 
joined the Aletropolitan Driving Club, and 
was one of the charter members of the Fells- 
way Driving Club. He also belongs to the 
Royal Arcanum, Arlington Business Men's 
Association and the Arlington Sportsman's 
Club. Mr. Law was vice-president of the Met- 
ropolitan Driving Club in 1914. and during his 
connection with the Fellsway has been on 
several committees, board of directors, third 
vice-president, and for three years held the 
office of president. 

He has always owned a fast trotter or 
pacer, being partial, however, in driving a 
speedy wiggler. Among those he has raced 
in the matinees can be called to mind Mabel 
C, Minor S., matinee record 2:17 1-4; Fells- 
way Boy. 2:28 1-4; Ida G., 2:26 1-2; May 
Bingen. Fanny M.. 2:241-4; and Rose Mar- 
tin, matinee record 2:21 1-4. 

Mr. Law was first elected president of the 
Fellsway Club in 191 1, and it was only by 



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the very hardest work, combined with shrewd- 
ness and frugality, that he managed to bring 
the club to the point where it has paid off all 
indebtedness and has a balance in the treas- 
ury. Unlike any other of the driving clubs of 
Greater Boston, the Fellsway never had a 
free race course, but has been obliged to pay 
thousands of dollars for its privileges and. 
has given large cash prizes, and with all this 
has always met its obligations promptly, a 
record of which President Law is proud. 

Mr. Law gives a lot of credit for the suc- 
cess of the Fellsway Club to the able as- 
sistance of C. E. Twombly, secretary and 
treasurer of the Fellsway, in conducting the 
affairs of the organization, not by any means 
feeling that he should expect all the praise for 
himself in its success. For four years, to the 
close of 1914, Mr. Law filled the position 
of starting judge at Combination Park, and in 
some of the important matinees he has kept 
busy, before calling the first race, taking 
tickets or selling them at the gate. This all 
goes to show the zeal that he had in the wel- 
fare of the organization. Mr. Law resides in 
Arlington, Mass. 

FRANK E. MORRISON 

Frank E. Morri.son was born in Somer- 
ville, Mass., in 1877, and was graduated from 
the schools of that city. When a young man 
he went to work for his father in the pro- 
vision business, and started in the same line 
for himself in 189(1 in Somerville, where he 
is still located. He was one of the organizers 
of the Fellsway Driving Club, and worked 
hard to bring the organization into a foremost 
place with the other driving clubs of Greater 
Boston. He was secretary for four years. He 
is also a member of the Odd Fellows and the 
Arlington Boat Club. 

While in matinee racing he owned and 
drove Billy M., 2:29 1-4; Charmion, 2:27 1-4, 
yet his greatest sport was with the trim little 
mare, Decima Deane, 2:14 1-4. She was a 
winning factor in the races at Combination 
Park for several seasons, and gained credit 
for herself in the interclub meets. Being one 
of the family, she is assured of a home so 
long as she lives. Air. Morrison resides at 23 
Brook Street, Somerville, Mass. 



C. M. LOCKWOOD 

C. M. LocKwooD has been closely identi- 
fied with race horses e\er since his youth. 
He became a member of the Metrorolitan 
Driving Club in 1905, and of the Fellsway in 
1908, thus being one of \he first members in 
each of the clubs. In the latter orgfaniza- 



tion he has filled the position of chairman of 
the speedway and racing committee. 

^Ir. Lock wood was in the employ of E. L 
Franklin, at Attleboro, Mass., for twelve 
years, and while with him raced and gave 
records to Rosie B., 2:27; Leida Wood, 
2:29; Rebate, 2:321-4, and others. He af- 
terwards campaigned Likewise, 2:17 3-4; 
Lnogene, 2:231-4; Tom L., 2:15; Evolute, 
2:101-2; Louise E., 2:113-4; Olivia 
F^ellini, 2:201-2, etc. He was at \\". H. 
Moody's farm in Claremont, N. H., in 1899, 
where he developed the mare, Evolute, driv- 
ing her a mile in 2:07 1-2, and was associat- 
ed with George H. Hicks for three years 
previous to entering the employ of Mr, 
Moody. He is now located at Combination 
Park, Medford, Mass., running a pubHc 
training stable, which he opened there in 
1900. For the last three years he has leased 
Combination Park and sub-leased it to the 
Fellsway Driving Club for use on Saturdays 
and holidays. Mr. Lockwood resides in 
Medford, Mass. 



ORIN E. LINSCOTT 

Orin E. Linscott was born in Porter, Me., 
in 1875. He attended the local grammar and 
high school, and then was graduated from 
the Xew Hampton Business College. In 
1895 he came to Boston and entered the em- 
ploy of F. L. Hazelton & Co., as book- 
keeper. The following year he started in 
business for himself, opening a retail grocery 
store in Boston. He is now superintendent 
of the ^Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. 

Air. Linscott was one of the early members 
of the Fellsway Driving Club, and joined the 
Dorchester Driving Club in 191 1. He is also 
a Knight of Pythias, I. O. O. F. and a mem- 
ber of the Dudley Club of Roxbury. His 
sport on the speedway and at Combination 
Park has been with Alice F., Edwin R., 
2:33 1-2; Laura L. and Lady Belle, the win- 
ner of second heat prize, season 1914, of 
Fellsway Club. Mr. Linscott resides at 455 
Columbus Avenue, Boston. 



HUGH J. MORRISON 

Hugh J. Morrison was born in Charles- 
town, Mass., in 1863, and was an attendant 
of the Harvard and Frothingham grammar 
schools. His first work was in Fox's Bakery 
in 1880-1893, the latter year starting in the 
lunch business for himself in Boston, where he 
is still located. He became a member of the 
^Metropolitan Driving Club the year that it 
was organized, and owned many of the fastest 
horses in the matinees, among which can be 
called to mind Pat L., 2:ifi 1-2; Alary M., 
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Parker, 2:20 1-4; Lord Alihott, Alary Cliff, 
the promising young stallion,' Gun ]\Ietal, 
2:16 1-4. the fast filly, Mary Metal, George 
M., and three fast fillies by Gun Metal. 
Mr. Morrison has raced a professional stable, 
outside of his matinee string, for a number 
of years, in charge of the capable trainer, 
J. j. "Whitey" Crowley. There is iw man 
that enjoys the sport any better than Mr. 
Morrison, and, no matter what comes his 
way, victory or defeat, he takes it with the 
same degree of fortitude. Mr. Morris<in 
resides at 13 Grant Street, Somerville, 
Mass. 



COL. A. C. DRINKWATER 

CoL. A. C. Drink WATER was born in Tops- 
ham. Me., in 1844, and received his education 
in the public schools and Edward Lattle 
Institute. He was brought up in the leather 
business, and started in business for himself 
in 1869, '••'' Rraintree, Mass., where he is stil! 
located. 

Co'onel Drinkwater was first president of 
the Old Colony Driving Club. He recog- 
nized in the organization of such an associa- 
tion the benefit it would be to the owners of 
horses on the South Shore, in having them 
interested in securing the best horses and in 
keeping them in the best of condition. Thus 
it was that the maxim of the club was to 
improve the breed of horses used bv gentle- 
men, and, following that plan, one of the first 
rules adopted after Colonel Drinkwater was 
made president, was that hoppled horses be 
barred from participating in the matinees of 
the club at the South Weymouth track. This 
theory of the Old Colony Club has been 
stronglv adhered to since, and is counted to 
have, in no small way, been the cause of its 
continuous success, which is growing larger 
and of more importance in the amateur field. 

While a breeder on a small scale, yet 
Colonel Drinkwater has made his name 
known the country over by the fast trotters 
and pacers he has bred. Among the most 
noted was Cochato (^), 2:11 r-2, winner of 
the classic Charter Oak Futurity, and now 
fast becoming a sire of renown. The Bosun, 
2:05 3-4, too, was bred by the Colonel ; Cello, 
2:17 1-2, was another; Mazie Sidney, trial, 
2:13 1-4, he purchased when she was a 
suckling filly, and she became prominent 
afterwards in the matinee circles of Greater 
Boston. 

In 1914 Colonel Drinkwater pointed with 
pride to the performance of the pacer, Squan- 
tum, 2:09 1-2, which he bred. Although only 
a three-year-old, yet this youngster was 
timed in 2:02 1-2 when he finished second to 
Anna Bradford in 2:01 1-2. The untimely 



death (if Si|uantum, the Fall of 1914, at 
Phoenix, Arizona, was regretted by his ad- 
mirers, who felt that, in his campaign of 191 5, 
great credit would be given to Alassachusetts 
by the victories of this prominent youngster. 
.-\ peculiar circumstance in the training of 
Squantum by Millard Drinkwater, at Read- 
ville track in 1913, was that he showed every 
inclination of being a fast trotter up to the 
lime he was developed to going a mile in 
2 124. Squantum then suddenly changed, 
when at speed, to pacing, and soon proved to 
his trainer that that was his natural gait, he 
soon after working a mile in 2:18. 

WHiile Colonel Drinkwater was a small 
lireeder, yet he was ver}- particular in the 
selection of the mare and stallion for mating, 
he never breeding a mare unless she was of 
a highly nervous temperament, while the 
stalHon must be "all horse," but level- 
headed — not rattle-brained. By following 
this plan he ascribes his success in breeding 
trotters. Colonel Drinkwater resides at Brain 
tree, Mass. 



HARRY C. THAYER 

Harry C. Thayer was born in South 
Braintree, Mass., in 1873. He joined the 
Dorchester Driving Club in 1906, and was 
one of the five that instituted the Old Colony 
Driving Club, which was organized in 1908. 
Mr. Thayer has held the position of president 
and vice-president of the Old Colony Driving 
Club, having been very prominent in its af- 
fairs. 

In the matinees at the South Weymouth 
track, Mr. Thayer has raced the fastest trot- 
ters that have represented the club in Altro 
L., 2:09 3-4; Katherine R., 2:11 3-4; Miss 
Lake and The Mermaid. Altro L. started in 
the first matinee given by the Old Colony 
Club, in 1908, and is the only horse of thaf 
period now racing in the matinees of the club. 
in the Fall of 1914. In the initial matinee, 
Altro L. placed the trotting record of the 
track at i :io 1-2, and the present mark of 
I :o7 was made by him in the Fall of the 
same year. In 1913 Mr. Thayer purchased 
the trotting mare, Katherine R. She won 
many races for him that Summer, showing 
her superiority over the other trotters, and, 
on August 16, equaled the record of 1 107 of 
the track in a race against \'an Dyke. Mr. 
Thaver resides in South Braintree, his native 
town. 



MATTHEW C. SPROUL 

M.\TTiiEW C. Sproul was born in Abington, 
Mass., in 1875, and was graduated from the 
local schools. His first work in Boston was 
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1893, which situation he has since held. He 
joined the Old Colony Driving Club in 1910. 
and has filled the position of secretary and 
treasurer, and chairman of the racing com- 
mittee. He takes delight in saying that he 
owns no horse and belongs to no secret so- 
ciety, but still he is a horseman, delighting in 
getting out in the open air and watching his 
friends battle for the blue ribbons and cups 
in the matinees. He has been a valuable aid 
in the prosperity of the Old Colony Club, be- 
ing an earnest worker and watching all the 
small details that are constantly arising. Mr. 
Sproul resides at 333 Columbia St., South 
\\'evmouth, Mass. 



S. B. TOTMAN 

S. B. ToTMAN was born in East Wey- 
mouth, Alass., in 1868, and, after attending 
the public schools of his native town, was 
graduated from Bryant & Stratton's Com- 
mercial College of Boston. When sixteen 
years of age he began working for himself 
in East Weymouth, and has since run a 
bakery and been interested in other busi- 
ness affairs. At present he is in real estate, 
mortgages and trading. He was a charter 
member of the Old Colony Driving Club, of 
which he served on the board of directors, 
and is a member of the Metropolitan Driving 
Club. 

Mr. Totnian has for years been identified 
with fast trotters and pacers. Thirty years 
ago his stable was winning money on the 
leading half-mile tracks of New England, 
and when matinee sport came he imme- 
diately was an enthusiast. Among the 
ones he has raced in the matinees are : 
Kaldar, 2:171-4, winner of third money in 
the big trotting handicap at Readville in 
1909; Betsey Bump, 2:21 1-4, constant win- 
ner of road brushes in her day ; Gipsey M., 
2:13 1-2; Harry Newton, Rhodi, 2:22 1-2; 
Ruth M., King Bogash, 2:201-4, etc. 

Mr. Totman has proved a worthy sire in 
having a son, Joseph W., following in his 
own footsteps. In the matinees at South 
Weymouth, Ivaldar was driven in his races 
by J. W. Totman, and a very clever reins- 
man he proved to be. Mr. Totman and his 
son reside at East Weymouth, Mass. 



RECTOR DAMON STETSON 

Rector Damon Stet.son was born in Han- 
over, Mass., in 1884, and was graduated from 
the schools of his native town. His first work 
in Boston was shipping clerk for Damon & 
Ellis, manufacturers of slippers, 88 High 
Street, Boston, in 1902. He became a mem- 
ber of the firm when it was incorporated, in 
1905. He joined the Old Colony Driving 



Club when it was organized, and has held 
several offices, including that of vice-presi- 
dent, and so popular has he been with the 
members of the club, and a conscientious 
worker in its interests, that he is strongly 
mentioned for the position of president in 
1915- 

In the matinees he has raced the fast pac- 
ing mare, Trixie S., 2:14 1-2; Santa. Belle, 
2 :23, etc., and owns what is considered by 
good judges the best pair of trotters, to pole, 
on the South Shore, these being Fancy P., 
trial of 2 :22, and Charm P., with a record of 
2:10. Mr. Stetson resides at Hanover Center, 
Mass. 



GEORGE HENRY WILLIAMSON 

George Henry Williamson was born in 
South Marshfield, ]\Iass., in 1845, ^"d was 
graduated from the public schools of that 
town. He started in business for himself in 
1867 at South Abington. Later he removed 
to his present location in Whitman, Mass., 
where he is engaged in horseshoeing and 
blacksmithing. He is one of the mo.-^t en- 
thusiastic members of the Old Colony 
Driving Club, and also a member of the 
Masons and other fraternal orders. Among 
the horses that he has owned and driven in 
the matinees are Boxer, George W., etc. 
Mr. Williamson resides in North Abington, 
Mass. 

GEORGE A. COWDREY 

George A. C(j\vdkev was born in Stone- 
ham, Mass., in 1875, and was graduated from 
the Wakefield public schools, Bryant & 
Stratton Commercial College, and Phillips 
Academy, Andover. He entered business in 
Boston in 1895, as partner in the firm of 
Chas. J. Beebe & Co., shoe findings. He is 
now treasurer and one of the firm of Smith & 
Cowdrey Co., dealers in pickled sheepskins, 
97 High Street, Boston. 

He was one of the instigators and assisted 
m the organization of the Quannapowitt 
Driving Club, and was elected the first 
treasurer of the club. The following year he 
filled the position of vice-president, which 
position he held during the season of 1909. 
In the latter year George A. Shackford was 
given the honor of president, but it so 
occurred that two weeks after taking the 
chair, business called him to another state, 
thus making it imperative that Mr. Cowdrey, 
as vice-president, take the position of pre- 
siding officer for the remainder of the term. 
In 1910 he was elected president. Mr. 
Cowdrey was a very energetic man in the in- 
terests of the club, which flourished im- 
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Qiiannapowitt Club, Mr. Cowdrey belongs to 
the Masons. 

In the matinees at the Reading-Wakefield 
track and interclub meets, Mr. Cowdrey was 
a very prominent factor. He always had in 
his stable trotters and pacers with speed to 
go out and make trouble in whatever class he 
elected to start them. The driving club trot- 
ting record of the track, i :o6 1-2, was made 
by one of his trotters, Crown Prince, 2:17 1-4, 
while the pacing record of 1 105 was made by 
Ginger B., 2:18 1-4, a mare he owned before 
this performance was made. Other trotters 
that he raced with success were Frank R. 
Wilkes, Hampshire Boy, Evergreen, and the 
good colt, Parkeno; while in the pacing divi- 
sion, outside of Ginger B., he owned Baron 
B., 2:15 1-4; Belle Sherwood, Belle Park, 
2:23 1-4, and Bettv. Mr. Cmvdrev resides in 
Wakefield. Mass. ' 



HENRY W. WEYMOUTH 

Henry W. Weymouth was born in Brattle- 
boro, Vt., in 1870, and attended the local 
schools of his native town and of Walpole, 
N. H. His first work was for B. E. Webster, 
owner of the Meeting House Hill Farm, 
Walpole, N. H. This was in 1887. He soon 
after entered the employ of the Fitchburg 
Railroad, where he remained for ten years. 
In 1899 he bought a farm in Walpole, N, H.. 
where he remained until 191 1, when he pur- 
chased his present farming property in Xorth 
Reading, Mass. 

Mr. Weymouth joined the Quannapowitt 
Driving Club in 191 1 and filled the office of 
secretary in the years 1912-13-14. He was a 
most efficient man for the position, having 
from a young man been strongly interested 
in the light harness horse and a fine bred dog. 

In the matinees of the Quannapowitt Club 
at the Reading-Wakefield track, Mr. Wey- 
mouth raced the well-known pacer, Tom 
Smelzey, 2:18 1-2, who in professional racing 
was famous throughout the West for the 
split-heat races he captured. Tom Smelzev 
was twenty-eight years old when Mr. \\'ey- 
mouth matineed him in 191 1. That year he 
won five races, three seconds, and one third 
in his nine starts. The following year he 
started eight times and was first five times, 
second twice, and third once. He was always 
a fighter to the finish of the race, winning his 
heats in around i :i5. In the Spring of 1914, 
when thirty-two years of age, Tom Smelzey 
was put away by Mr. Weymouth, and, up 
to the day of his death, he was as fat, slick, 
and sound as any colt. 

Another owned and raced by Mr. Wey- 
mouth in the Quannapowitt matinees was 
the mare Helen L., by Dare Devil, 2 :og. He 



started her three times in 1912, and in 1913 
she faced the starting judge in no less than 
thirteen races and, as the result of her work, 
secured the cup for winning more races than 
any other horse in the club. She has been a 
trial over the Reading-Wakefield half-mile 
track in 2:28 1-2, has won heats in her mati- 
nee races in i :is, and was second in i :io 1-2. 
;\lr. Weymouth resides at North Reading, 
Mass. 



W. H. NICHOLS 

W. H. Nichols was one of the charter mem- 
iDers of the Quannapowitt Driving Club. He 
has for a number of years been in the em- 
ploy of Beyer Bros.' Commission Co., at 47- 
48 South Market Street, Boston. Mr. 
Nichols has been strongly identified with 
matinee sport, always owning a good trotter, 
among these being Joe Thomas, by Tarratine, 
which started in the first matinee of the 
Quannapowitt Driving Club ; Perseverance, 
2:241-4; Gold Band, Jr., Country Boy, 
2:201-4, ^'id Hector K., 2:291-4, by 
Seumanee, son of Bingen, 2 :o6 1-4, dam, Irish 
Queen, by Edgemark, 2:16; second dam, 
Carrie T.. 2:261-4, by Dom Pedro. Carrie 
T. was the old-time sleighing champion of 
Boston. Mr. Nichols resides in Reading, 
Mass. 



EBEN B. PHILLIPS 

Eben B. Phillips was born in Swampscott, 
Mass., and attended the schools of his native 
town. He was one of the first members of 
the Lynn Club, and filled the position of sec- 
ond vice-president for four terms, first vice- 
president in 1912, and became president by 
the election of 1913. He is also a member 
of the Metropolitan Club, which he joined in 
1908. 

In the matinees of the Lynn Club Mr. 
Phillips has been very strong, his horses 
having been among the very fastest that took 
the word in the events decided season after 
season. This was particularly so in the big 
interclub meets, held in the years of 1909 and 
1910, when • Reliance. 2:11 1-4, set a new 
record for the Reading- Wakefield track of 
1 :03 1-2, and, in the meet at Combination 
Park, lowered the record of the track to 
1:01 1-2. There was Croesus, 2:191-2, too, 
which Mr. Phillips raced in the matinees for 
two consecutive seasons without meeting a 
single defeat. Among the others he has 
raced can be called to mind, Al Ray, 2:13 1-4; 
Jimmy B., 2:111-4; Clayola, 2:211-4; 
Gloria Rex, 2:231-4; Laristina, 2:131-4; 
James W., 2:09 r-4, which Lester Dore cam- 
paigned extensively for Mr. Phillips in 1914; 
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Haverhill track in i :oi i--), etc. Mr. Vhillips 
resides in Danvers, Mass. 



HENRY H. FULLAM 

Henri H. Fullam was born in Bucksport, 
Alaine, in 1863, and received his education in 
Bangor. His first work was in Lynn, in 1882, 
for the firm of S. White & Co., dealers of 
tents, awnings, etc. He started in business 
for himself in 1889, locating, as at present, at 
93 Oxford St., Lynn, in manufacturing tents 
and awnings. He was a charter member of 
the Gentlemen's Driving Club of Lynn, and 
has been on the board of directors. He is a 
member of the Red Men, and belongs to sev- 
eral other orders. Among the horses he has 
owned can be called to mind Awning Boy, 
Flossie W., 2:16 1-4; Jack the Ripper, 
2:27 1-2; Little Dick, 2:24 1-2, and News- 
boy, 2 :20 1-4. He has been very successful 
in his matinee racing, and gets keen enjoy- 
ment in the driving and handling of his 
horses. Mr. Fullam resides at 38 Wentworth 
Place, Lynn, Mass. 

HERBERT GRAY 

Herbert Gray was born in York, Me., 
in 1850, and attended the schools of \orth 
Berwick, Me. When twenty years old he 
opened a livery stable in North Berwick, but 
soon sold it and in 1872 came to Boston to 
run the Merrimac House. He is now en- 
gaged in the real estate business in Haver- 
hill, Mass. He belongs to the Haverhill 
Lodge of Elks. 

Mr. Gray was manager of the Thomas W. 
Lawson racing stable from 1900 to 1904, dur- 
ing which time he purchased over $400,000 
worth of trotters for the great copper mag- 
nate. This included several stallions and 
brood mares, which were used in stocking 
the famous Dreamwold Farm, in Scituate. 
Mass., which has since become celebrated 
for its beauty. 

Among the trotters which Mr. Gray 
bought for the Dreamwold racing stable 
were Boralma, 2:07; Mamie W. (^), 2:17 1-4; 
Dreamer (3), 2:14 1-4; Oxford Boy (2), 2:20; 
Glory, 2:11 1-2; Sagwa, 2:13 1-4, etc. Un- 
der Mr. Gray's management of four years 
the Dreamwold stable won every big stake 
in the Grand Circuit, excepting the M. & M. 
Boralma won the three-year-old Kentucky 
Futurity, and the Transylvania, being one 
of the few horses to have the honor of tak- 
ing both events. Oxford Boy headed the 
summary of the two-year-old Kentucky 
Futurity. Georgena, 2:07 1-2, also under his 
management, won the classic Charter Oak 
stake. Previous to Dreamwold being in 
readiness for the wintering of horses, they 



were kept one season at the model Thorn- 
dale Farm, Andover, Mass. Mr. Gray re- 
sides in Haverhill, Mass. 



HOLLIS P. GALLUP 

HoLLis P. Gallup was born in Boston in 
1 86 1, where he received his early education. 
At the age of eleven years he entered the em- 
ploy of Isburgh & Rowland, East St., Bos- 
ton, dealers in horses and carriages and hold- 
ing weekly auction sales. When eighteen years 
ol<l he began driving on the street cars for 
the West End Railroad, and started in busi- 
ness for himself in 1883, with a milk route 
and stable, his stable being in Dorchester and 
farm in Milton. Mass. He is at present lo- 
cated at 22 Barnes St., Dorchester, where 
he has been for twenty-three years in the 
stable business, selling, buying, boarding of 
horses, and contracting. Mr. Gallup was one 
of the three that organized the Dorchester 
Gentlemen's Driving Club in 1899, and has 
served the club on the board of directors and 
racing committee. He also belongs to the 
Odd Fellows. 

Mr. Gallup has two distinctions that will 
likely never be beaten. One is that in the en- 
tire existence of the Dorchester Club he has 
missed only one of its weekly meetings, and 
that through sickness, and the other is in get- 
ting 266 new members for the club in three 
years, 211 of them during President Newbert's 
administration. 

He has raced ever since the club was or- 
ganized, never missing a season from the mat- 
inees, and in all that time he has not recused a 
match, and always raced his horses where 
they were placed by the racing committee. 

Among the numerous horses that Mr. Gal- 
lup has owned and driven can be brought to 
mind, Ashmont, that was his first trotter, and 
which he still owns though he is now over 
twent\- years of age ; Celia, which he bought at 
auction for $100, and without a day's han- 
dling she stepped a quarter at Readville in 32 
seconds. After being used by Mr. Gallup for 
several years, she was sold again under the 
hammer and brought very near her original 
price. 

Bob Fitz, 2:17 1-4, was another of the 
old reliables, as were Rubsley G., 2:16 1-2; 
Queenie, trial, 2:201-4; Axtelloid, 2:151-4; 
Judge Green, 2 :o9, that held the world's rec- 
ord for a four-year-old gelding in 190.^ ; Cris- 
pin, with the speed capacity of quarters in 
30 seconds ; and Matt M. 

Earl King, bred by the railroad magnate, 
E. H. Harriman, and sired by Stamboul, 2:11, 
dam Gipsey Earl, by The Earl, was very fast 
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Billy Andrews, and while owned by Air. Gal- 
lup raced against and defeated more hoppled 
pacers than any other trotter ever owned in 
Boston. In his races he was frequently timed 
quarters in 29 1-2 seconds. After passing 
from Mr. Gallup's hands to parties in Maine 
he was started, in February, 1914, over the ice 
at W'inthrop, Maine, in the free-for-all, win- 
ning an eight-heat race, the time being the 
fastest in the world for eight heats at a quar- 
ter of a mile. The fourth heat Earl Kinir 



ton with his office in the market district. He 
joined the Dorchester Driving Club in 1905. 
He was on the board of directors three years 
and has served on various other committees. 
He also belongs to the Masons, Odd Fel- 
lows, Knights of Pythias, Ancient Order of 
L'nited Workmen, and the Market Men's 
Relief Association. 

y\r. Wheelock has always been prominent 
(in the Franklin Field Speedway. Among 
the horses he has raced are: Charlcv King-, 




CHARLEY KING, 2:14 1-4 
The Winner of Over One Hundred Races Shown Pacing a Fast Heat for His Owner, 
A. T. Wheelock, at Franklin Field Speedway 



captured in 31 seconds, which ecpialed the 
state of Maine record for trotters over the 
ice. 

Then there was Hollis Bingen, which Mr. 
Gallup bred, developed, and raced ; Gallup's 
Todd, and Silence, 2:21 3-4, which as a three- 
year-old was second in the big futurity at 
Hartford in 2:12 1-2. Mr. Gallup resides in 
Dorchester, Mass. 



ADNA T. WHEELOCK 

Adna T. Wheelock was born in St. Johns- 
bury, Vt., in 1858, and was graduated from 
the Tinkerville School, Lyman, N. H. His 
first work in Boston was in 1878, for Cook 
& Handy, in driving a watering cart. In 
1880 he started in the milk business and, 
later, went into the trucking business in Bos- 



2:14 1-4; Sunny Jim, 2:32 I-4; Willema, 
2:26: Prince Albert, 2:241-4, etc. He 
bought Charley King when he was a five- 
year-old and for nine consecutive seasons he 
was one of the top-notchers of the speedway 
and in interclub meets. When raced profes- 
sionally he earned hisi record of 2:141-4, 
and was at the top of the summary, or a 
factor in the events in which he took part. 
Charley King has won over 100 blue rib- 
bons. There is probably no other horse in 
New England better known to the matinee 
followers than this gelding. 

Mr. Wheelock frequently asserts that he 
is ready to buy another that could duplicate 
Charley King, and that he looks back to the 
years in which he raced the gelding and the 
whole lot of fun he had with him. Mr. 



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Wheelock resides at 351 Dorchester Street, 
South Boston, Mass. 



MICHAEL McDERMOTT 

Michael McDermott was born in Ireland, 
in 1853, and attended the schools of Dublin. 
He started in the plastering business for 
himself in New York in 1888, and removed 
his business to Boston in 1894. He is now 
retired from business. He joined the Dor- 
chester Driving Club in 1907, and served on 
the board of directors for three years. He is 
also a member of the Old Colony Driving 
Club, and of the Boston Lodge of Elks. 

i\Ir. JMcDermott always owned good 
horses and for that reason he took much en- 
joyment in belbnging to the driving clubs. 
While frequently requested to be a candidate 
for president of the Dorchester Club, yet he 
declined, saying that he was no ofiBce seeker, 
but a diligent worker in other directions for 
the prosperity of the organization. Among 
the horses matineed by Mr. McDermott 
were Krispen, Klondyke, 2:12 1-4; Camillo, 
2:20 1-4; and Mary Mc. With the last named 
he was always ready to meet any trotter the 
racing committee of either the Dorchester or 
Old Colony Clubs elected he should start 
against. She is a trim, clean-going mare that 
attracted a lot of attention. Mr. McDermott 
resides at 27 Charles Street, Dorchester, 
Mass. 



FRED S. ELDREDGE 

Fred S. Ei.dredge w^as born in South Har- 
wich, Mass., in 1863, and was a graduate of 
the public schools of his native town. He 
went to work in JBoston, in 1881, for the 
grocery firm of C. D. Swain & Co., 2364 
Washington St. Three years later he opened 
a grocery for himself at 191 Hampden St., 
Roxbury, and is at present in the trucking 
business at 122 Purchase St. Mr. Eldredge is 
a charter member of the Dorchester Driving 
Club, and joined the Old Colony Driving Club 
in 1910. He also belongs to the United Work- 
men. Mr. Eldredge has been active on the 
racing committee of the Dorchester Club, and 
has served on the board of directors. 

The matinee racing over the Franklin Field 
Speedway would seem sadly out of joint were 
not Mr. Eldredge seen there racing days, 
driving his own and the fast ones belonging 
to other members of the Dorchester Club. He 
is one of the cleverest of reinsmen, having 
brought many of his horses to victory. It is 
a saying among the club members that if they 
have a particularly hard race it is a good 
plan to secure Mr. Eldredge to do the eng!- 
ueering in the sulky. 

In some of the memorable races that have 



made the speedway historical, in which were 
horses that Mr. Eldredge drove, can be read- 
ily brought to mind B. S. Dillon, 2:14 1-4; 
Directumwood, 2:20 1-4; Checkers, 2:18 1-2, 
and Sister Patch. In going through the list of 
the club, in fact, it might seem that Mr. El- 
dredge has driven all of the fast ones. When 
Sister Patch made the pacing record of the 
speedway, by pacing in i :oo, and then com- 
ing back in i :oi 1-4, it was none other than 
the subject of our sketch who was seated m 
the sulky. 

Other horses he has driven and marked a.'e 
.\uthentic, 2:16 1-4; Lizzie Simms, 2:18; 
Princess Ebilo, 2:20 1-4; Martindale, 2:19 1-4; 
Grace G., 2:05 1-4; Charley King, 2:14 1-4, 
and Gallagher, 2:03 1-2, which he campaigned 
in Vermont, Maine and Massachusetts, and 
never lost a race. 

Mr. Eldredge owned Joe King, which he 
matineed in the events of the Old Colony and 
Dorchester Clubs up to the Fall series of 
1914. In October of that season he pur- 
chased the trotter, Baron Patch, 2:18 3-4, the 
gelding so well known to the regulars at the 
Franklin F'ield Speedway. Air. Eldredge re- 
sides at 8 Angell St., Dorchester, Mass. 



JAMES I. BROOKS 

James I. Brooks was born in Corinth, \"t., 
in" 1875, and received his education in the 
public schools of his native town. His first 
work in Boston was in 1897 for the New 
England Reference and Bond Association. 
He started in business for himself in 1902, 
buying and selling horses in Somerville, and 
as superintendent of the delivery and equip- 
ment department of the Fox Bakery, in 
Charlestown. 

Mr. Brooks was one of the organizers of 
the Fellsway Driving Club, and filled the po- 
sition of president in the years 1908, 1909 and 
191 1. During these first years of the club 
Air. Brooks left no stone unturned in better- 
ing the condition of the organization, both in 
securing members and financially. 

In matinee racing Mr. Brooks was an 
enthusiast. He owned a number of the 
racing stars of the Fellsway Club that 
were prominent, too, in the interclub meets. 
Among those he raced were: Muchado, 
2:131-4; Sir George, 2:18 3-4; Axtelloid, 
2:15 T-4; Ginger B., 2:18 1-4; Young Chimes, 
2:111-2: Harry Brino, 2:171-2; Wavelite, 
2:241-4; Canterbury Girl, 2:201-4; Ned 
Wilkes, 2:09 1-4, etc. Mr. Brooks is a mem- 
ber of the fraternal order of Masons ; belongs 
to the Somerville Republican Club, Ward 4, 
and the Somerville Fourth of July Associa- 
tion. He resides at 30 Sewell Street, Somer- 
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GEORGE N. COYLE 

George N. Coyle was born in Charlestown, 
Mass., in 1881, and attended the Bunker Hill 
Grammar School, Boston College, and the Bos- 
ton Latin School. His first work was for the 
Charlestown Gas Co., and soon after, in 1901, 
he started in business for himself, opening a 
coal, wood and coke yard in Charlestown. 
He is at present in the same business at 5 
Broadway, Somerville. 

He is a charter member of the Fellsway 
Driving Club, and has served on the board of 
directors. Other orders of which he is a 
member are the K. of C, F. M., C. O. P., 
C. L. W. of Charlestown, T. A. and L. 
Society, and the Arlington Boat Club 
Among the horses that Mr. Coyle has owned 
were Tom Drew, 2:23 1-2; Wild Fern, trial 
2:18 1-2; Billy Mack, 2:2- 1-4; Ella Hal, 
trotting, 2:19 1-4, pacing, 2:15 1-2, etc. Mr. 
Covle resides at 66 Pearl Street, Somerville, 
Mass. 

E. R. WHITMAN 
E. R. Whitman, one of the early members 
of the Fellsway Driving Club, was born in 
Bethel, Maine. He started in business for 
himself, in 1855, at 10 and 12 Dorrance St., 
Charlestown, Mass., where he is still located, 
his line being store fixtures. He is a very suc- 
cessful business man and has but one fad, the 
enjoyment of a good horse. He has been very 
prominent in the matinees at Combination 
Park, and, in the last few years, has raced 
considerable over the New England tracks. 
Among the best horses that he has cam- 
paigned, both in an amateur and professional 
way, were Joe K., 2:15 1-4; Pat I.. 2:16 1-2; 
and Dorsey W., 2:23 1-4. Mr. Whitman re- 
sides in Medford, Mass. 



C. E. TWOMBLY 

C. E. TwoMBLV was born in Milton, N. H., 
in 1869, and attended the schools of Dover, 
N. H. His first work in Boston was with 
Samuel Ward Co., stationers, in 1884, filling 
the position of salesman. In 1894 he started 
in the stationery and printing business for 
himself, and for twenty years was located at 
32 Hawley Street, Boston. He is at present 
in the same business at 139 North Street, 
Boston. 

Mr. Twombly was one of the charter mem- 
bers of the Fellsway Driving Club, and has 
held the position of secretary for the past 
three years. He joined the Metropolitan 
Driving Club in 19 10. He has been prom- 
inent in the matinees at Combination Park, 
and, in Doctor, he owns the matinee trotter 
that lias won as many ribbons as any trotter 



in Greater Boston during the last nine years. 
Doctor is Mr. Twombly's old standby. No 
one has had more fun with a horse than has 
Mr. Twombly with Doctor. His record for 
a half-mile is 1 107 1-2, made at the Charles 
River Speedway, and his winning heats at 
Combination Park were in i :io to i -.12. He 
won the point prize for trotters in the Fells- 
way Club the last four years. Mr. Twombly 
also owns Manila Boy, 2:18 1-2, winner of 
the point prize for pacers in the Fellswav 
Club for 1914, and formerly owned Maud M., 
2:15 1-2, another matinee performer of merit. 
Mr. Twombly resides at Medford, Mass. 



BRADFORD R. COBB 

Bradford R. Coer was born in Westbrook, 
Me., in 1840, and attended the schools of 
that town. His first work in Boston was for 
John Harwood, who run a boarding and 
hacking stable in Fort Hill. This was in 
1854. In 1881 he opened a boarding and 
hacking stable in Arlington Street, Chelsea, 
where he remained until 1888, and then re- 
moved to 615 Broadway, of the same city. 
He was one of the early members of the 
Fellsway Driving Club and joined the Metro- 
politan Driving Club in 1909. He also be- 
longs to the Masons, and the I. O. O. F. 

Mr. Cobb is one of the oldest road-drivers 
in Greater Boston, and for forty years he 
iiwiied one or more trotters with abundance 
of speed. His first trotter was Yankee Boy, 
that forty years ago gained a reputation for 
speed on the old Mill Dam. Then he had 
Silver Street, 2:19 1-4; Orange Boy, 2:183-4; 
Alice K., trial, 2:20; Dexter B., 2:241-4; 
Bald Chief, and Sandy, that could pull two 
men a mile to wagon in 2 :35. 

In his boarding and hacking stable the 
patrons were the leading horse owners of the 
vicinity. At times the number of driving 
horses run as high as seventy. When the 
well known horseman, Edwin B. Rice, was 
on the turf, he wintered his horses at Mr. 
Cobb's stable, which included John M., 
2:023-4; The Friend, 2:051-4; Orianna, 
2:12 1-2; L. L. D., 2:09; Sufreet, 2:06 1-4; 
Chief Wilkie. 2:123-4; liaron March, 2:15; 
Fben L, 2:22, etc. Looking over the list of 
men who have driven their trotters down the 
street incline fromi Mr. Cobb's stable are 
noted the following: Alton E. Briggs, M. 
Winton, Tom Taylor, Sam Orr, Dr." Kim- 
ball, Peter Thomas, Jasper Kelley, Frank 
N. West, \\'alter "M. Rockers.' A. S. 
Litclificld, Joseph Haskell, J. F. Ran- 
dolph, Fred Berry, H. G. Stevt'ns, and Will 
Woodbury. Mr. Cobb resides at 42 Crescent 
Avenue, Chelsea, Mass. 



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GEORGE M. DAVIS 

George M. Davis was born in Derry, N. 
H., in 1845, and received his education in the 
common schools of his native town. His first 
work in the vicinity of Boston was in 1868, 
fining the position of mason for Amos B. 
Drowns, Lynn, Mass. He started in busi- 
ness for himseH in 1889, doing contracting of 
all kinds and mason work. He is now in the 
same business, the firm name being G. iM 
Davis & Son, 15 Federal Street, Boston. 

Mr. Davis was a charter member of the 
Somerville Gentlemen's Driving Club, which 
was organized in 1899, and of which he was 
first vice-president for two years, and then 
president for two more years. He was one 
of the organizers of the Fellsway Driving 
Club, being a charter member, and was first 
vice-president for two years, and is now 
treasurer for four years, and says he has 
hopes of the office for a fifth term. He also 
belongs to Abraham Lincoln Post No. n. 
G. A. R., of which, in 1907, he was the com- 
mander. 

Mr. Davis has owned many fast horses, 
and was prominent both on the speedway 
and, once in a while, taking a dash for the 
purses hung up for professional races. 
Among those that he has owned, and were 
raced by his son, George, are Chazy Boy, 
2:13 1-2; Betsy Bugle, 2:15 1-4; Argot Lad, 
2:17 1-2; John S., 2:20 1-4; Angie Wilkes, 
2:21 1-2: Independence, 2:21 1-2; Yellow 
Ash, 2:24 1-2; Alvin Swift, 2:10 3-4; Auto- 
bon, 2:27; Charley W., 2:27; Allen Hale 
(trial 1914), 2:19. Mr. Davis resides at 20 
Arthur Street, Somerville, Mass. 



JAMES F. YOUNG 

James F. Yoi-ng was born in ]\Iillbury, 
Mass., in 1874, and attended the public 
schools of his native town. Aside from his 
school duties, he worked in the IMillbury Cot- 
ton ]\Iills, and, after graduating from school, 
he entered the employ of Washbourn & 
Moen, Worcester, he then being seventeen 
years of age. Mr. Young is now the secretary 
of the Quincy Mutual Fire Lisurance Co., of 
Quincy, Mass. He joined the Dorchester 
Driving Club in 1907, the Old Colony Driv- 
ing Club in 1908, and the ^Metropolitan Driv- 
ing Club in 1913. He has held all the impor- 
tant offices in the Old Colony Club from clerk 
to filling the position of president. He also 
belongs to the Royal Lodge, St. Stephen's 
Chapter, South Shore Commandery of Quin- 
cy, as well as the Aleppo Temple of Mystic 
Shriners. 

Mr. Young has been identified with the 
matinee races of the Old Colony Club and in 
interclub meets for a number of years, and 



has usually owned a horse more than capable 
of holding its own. Among those that can be 
mentioned are Kalanos, 2:18 3-4; Nelsa Ben- 
ton, by Benton M., 2:10, out of Bella Nelson, 
trial 2:16 1-4, by Nelson, 2:09; ^"d Miss 
Vassar, 2:17 1-4. With the last named he 
had a whole lot of fun in the year 19 14, 
racing against the crack pacers of the Old 
Colony at South Weymouth. The way that 
she marched it off made the owners of other 
free-for-allers feel leery of her any time she 
started. Mr. Young resides in Quincy, Mass. 



HENRY P. MILLER 

Henry P. Miller was born in Quincy, 
Mass., in 1879, and attained his education in 
the grammar schools of Quincy and the 
Quincy High School. For several years he 
assisted his father, J. L. Miller, later ilayor of 
Quincy, in the monumental business. In 1906 
he entered the type metal business, and has 
been for several years the New England man- 
ager of the Pittsburgh White Metal Co., whose 
head office is in New York City. Mr. ^liller 
joined the Old Colony Driving Club in 1908, 
and served on the racing committee the seasons 
of 1910-11-12. He was vice-president in 1913, 
and was elected president in 1914. He also 
belongs to the Royal Lodge, St. Stephen's 
Chapter, South Shore Commandery of Quin- 
cy, as well as the Aleppo Temple of ]\Iystic 
Shriners. 

While Mr. Miller has never owned a horse 
with a fast record, yet he is a very shrewd 
judge of the speed of a trotter or a pacer. It 
was this rare faculty that made him so suc- 
cessful in the performing of his duties, with 
justice to all, when on the racing committee. 
In the duties of executive officer of the club, 
he has done good work, promoting several of 
the year's interclub meets, and at all times has 
been a live wire. Mr. Miller resides at 31 
Chestnut St., Quincy, Mass. 



FRED H. BELLOWS 

Fred H. Bellows was born in Norton, 
Mass., in 1873, and attended the public 
schools of Brockton, Mass., his parents hav- 
ing removed to that city when he was a small 
lad. He started in business for himself in 
Boston, in 1895, at 181 Tremont St., opening 
a suite of rooms for the conducting of mer- 
chant tailoring, and at which place he is still 
located. He joined the Dorchester Driving 
Club in 1901, was one of the original mem- 
bers of the Metropolitan Club when organized 
in 1904. and became a member of the Old 
Colony Club in 1912. He was also a charter 
member of the Brockton Lodge of Elks, and 
belongs to the St. John's Lodge of Masons. 



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He was vice-president of the Metropolitan 
Driving Club in 1914, and was a director for 
two terms in the Dorchester Club, in both 
years of which he received the highest vote of 
any of the candidates running for that office. 

Mr. Bellows is a thorough, dyed-in-the- 
wool lover of horses and horse racing. He 
enjoys matinee racing with the best of them, 
and. too. is made happy if he has one with 
the ability to go out and try for the cash hung 
up in professional racing. 

The list of horses that he has owned and 
driven shows quite an arra\- of established 



Bett, 2:21 1-4; Teddy Bingen, 2:15 1-4; and 
Lady Klondyke, 2:29 1-2. 

In 1914 Mr. Bellows enjoyed the matinee 
and professional races with the four-year- 
old pacing gelding, Chato, 2:15 1-4. He 
purchased this gelding when he was com- 
ing three years old, and in that season he 
gave him several races and a record of 
2:24 1-4. While he was campaigned not only 
over the local tracks, but in the state of 
Maine, yet he won all of his starts with the 
exception of a couple of them. In 1914 he 
won one race in two starts with Chato at 






THISTLP: (by Nelson's Wilkes) 

A Hard Pacer to Beat to Snow in tlie Early Days of the Metropolitan Club. 

Owned and Driven by William J. Lovell 



speed. All knowing Mr. Bellows appreciate 
the fact that his prime favorite was Helga- 
mite, 2:32 1-4. This very handsome mare was 
well called "Queen of the Speedway." In 
her matinee career she gathered in upwards 
of one hundred blue ribbons, likely leading 
any other equine in that respect. 

Then, in the course of passing seasons, Mr. 
Bellows would get a likely prospect, or one 
with a fast record, and for one reason or 
another would dispose of it and buy another 
one. The ones that he has owned and can 
be called to mind follow: Caffeeno, 2:07 1-4; 
Fieldmont, 2:13 1-4; Ella Carey, 2:23 1-4; 
Onward March, 2:23 1-4; Louise D., 
2:20 1-2; Lady Spier, 2:24 1-2; Ashland 



Marshfield, two races at Bridgewater, and 
headed the summary of his race at the South 
Weymouth Fair. In the event he lost at 
Marshfield he gained his record of 2:15 1-4, 
and was only defeated by that very fast pacer, 
Ben Locanda, 2:10 3-4. 

Mr. Bellows has had great enjoyment with 
Chato, more so, probably, because he has 
done his own training and driving. If there 
is one thing that he particularly likes, it is 
getting into the thick of the battle with his 
own horses. 

Mr. Bellows resides in Holbrook, Mass., 
where he owns a commodious residence, with 
land enough almost to be classed in the list 
of being a stock farm. 



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HERBERT A. BRACKETT 
Herbert A. Brackett was born in Dedham, 
in 1872, and was graduated from the Maiden 
schools. His first work was as a printers" 
devil with Geo. B. King & Co., in 1886. He 
started in business for himself in 1907, under 
the firm name of Richardson & Brackett, 
dealers in paints and oils at 12 Sudbury 
Street, Boston. He is still in the same line 
of business, with a location at 7 Sudbury 
Street. 

Mr. Brackett was one of the original mem- 
bers of the Ouannapowitt Driving Club, and 
joined the Metropolitan Driving Club in 

1909. He is also the race secretary of the 
Quannapowitt Agricultural Society, which 
position he held for four years. Mr. Brackett 
was elected the first secretary of the Quan- 
napowitt Driving Club and, in 1909, was 
made treasurer, which office he held through 

1910, and then, in 191 1, was elected vice- 
president and, in 1913, he was rewarded for 
his diligent efforts in behalf of the club, with 
the presidency. Mr. Brackett was a hustler, 
keeping things on the move all the time he 
was in office. 

In the matinees he was prominent, both 
over the Reading track and in the interclub 
meets, among those he owned being Wasco, 
2:14 1-4; Nellie S., 2:12 1-4; Re.xina, 
2:191-4; Blue Light, 2:20; Pauline Direct, 
and the two-year-old Direct 'i'odd, of which 
much is expected. Mr. Brackett belongs to 
the Red Men. and the U. O. G. C. He re- 
sides in Reading, Mass. 



FRED CHURCHILL 
Fred Churchill was born in North Paris, 
Me., in 1861, and attended the schools at 
.Stoneham, Mass. He started in business for 
himself in 1891, opening a livery and board- 
ing stable in Melrose, Mass., where he is still 
located. He joined the Quannapowitt Driv- 
ing Club in 1907, and has served on the 
board of directors. He also belongs to the 
Sons of Veterans and the Melrose Lodge of 
Elks. In the matinees at Reading and inter- 
club meets, he has raced Harry M., Matty 
C. and Bessie Wilkes, etc., all without rec- 
ords, but capable of racing with the stars in 
the amateur driving club events. Mr. 
Churchill resides at 616 IMain Street, Melrose, 
Mass. 



SAMUEL G. BROWN 

Samuel G. Brown was born in Lynn, 
Mass., in i860, and was graduated from the 
high school of that city. His first work was 
in New York in 1879 for hi? father, William 
Austin Brown. He started in business for 
himself in 1891, opening a boarding and 



livery stable in Lynn. He is at present en- 
gaged in the stable and garage equipment 
business in that city. 

Mr. Brown was one of the very first to 
start the Gentlemen's Driving Club of Lynn, 
being one of the famous Mission boys. He 
has filled every position in the club, from 
clerk and press representative, up to presi- 
dent in the year 1914. He was official start- 
ing judge at the matinee and interclub meets 
for several seasons, and one of the first to 
secure a National Trotting Association 
license to start horses. In the $50,000 handi- 
cap at Readville track, he was associate 
judge. He was also associate judge and 
announcer with the starting judge, A. H. 
Merrill, at Rochester, N. H., Hartford, 
Conn., Readville and other parks for several 
seasons. 

Mr. Brown has owned many horses hav- 
ing speed, among the fastest being Little 
Frank, Kitty C, Judge W., Fanny D., etc. 
He resides at 10 Pearl .Street, Lynn, Mass. 



LEVI S. LORD 

Levi S. Lord was born in North Beverly, 
Mass., in 1855, and attended the schools of 
his native town and in Beverly. His first 
work was for George Johnson, grocer, in 
North Beverly, in 1873, and the first money 
he earned he spent for a horse. He started 
in business for himself in 1879, owning the 
barge line between Wenham and Beverly. 
Later he began the training of horses and 
opened a boarding stable in Cherry Street, 
Wenham, where he is still located. It is 
said that he does more in clipping horses 
than any man east of Boston. 

Mr. Lord became a member of the Lynn 
Driving Club in ic)o6 and also belongs to 
the Odd Fellows. He has been very active 
in the matinee racing, his trotting gelding. 
General, 2:3x1-4, being familiar to horse- 
men of Greater Boston. In his younger 
days General was raced under the name of 
General Lambert, and was capable of turn- 
ing a half-mile track in 2:15. 

In the years that Mv. Lord owned Gen- 
eral he was never started in a professional 
race, nor driven in a matinee event by any- 
body except himself. In four seasons' rac- 
ing with the L}nn Cluii, General won three 
championship cups, two special cups and the 
service fee, valued at $100, of Cochato (3), 
2:11 1-2, In more than loo races he won 
l)ut two yellow ribbons, the others being 
blues and reds. Another that Mr. Lord 
used for a fun horse was Enoch Arden. 

2:24 T-2. 

One great pride of Mr. Lord is having 
been one of the organizers of the Hamilton 




Pli"U. from Am Hnrse Brr,J,r 

CHARLES SANDERS 
He Paid $2,500 for Uhlan, 1:58, and Sold the World's Champion to C. K. G. Billings for $35,000 



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The Driving Clubs of Greater Boston 



Driving- Club, which was instituted in 1906, 
tlie first matinee being held on Labor Day 
of that year. It is the one club that owns 
its speedway, ^nd i( was l)nilt and paid for 
by contribution before the club was organ- 
ized and chartered. The course is on 'pri- 
vate ground, all but 300 yards being on 
the property of Jonathan Brown, adjoining 
the Myopia Club. It was constructed b> 
Charles Guinn, and has always been a very 
fast piece of racing dirt, as shown by the 
time made in the matinees held each ^^'ed- 
nesday during the Summer months. 

The incorporators of the Hamilton Club 
were : Lev' S. Lord, L. E. Libby, H. S. 
Guinn, W. F. Kinsman, .S. C. Gould, X. J- 
Conrad, J. E. Dodge, H. H. Dempsey. C. S. 
Guinn. T. J. Broderick, and the following 
were the first list of ofificials : Levi S. Lord, 
president : W. F. Kinsman, vice-president ; 
Lester E. Libby, treasurer, and Hallett 
Guinn, secretary. The officials during the 
year of 1914 were- William E. Tovvnsend, 
president ; James E. Brady, vice-president : 
Lester E. Libby, treasurer ; Raymond Gould, 
secretary. Mr. Lord resides in Wenham. 
Mass. 



J. MARO HARRIMAN 

J. Marc Harkim.xn was born in West Leb- 
anon, Me., in 1859, and attended the Leba- 
non Academy, and a preparatory school. His 
first work was twenty-five years ago in a 
New York Hotel. Later he worked in a 
drug store in the same city. After a short 
period he removed to Lynn, Mass., starting 
in business for himself by opening a pharmacy 
at 248 Union Street, he being the first 
pharmacist to keep open all night, his doors 
not having been locked in ten years. He also 
owns the pharmacy at 81 Chatham Street. 
Lynn. 

Mr. Harriman is one of the early mem- 
bers of the Lynn Club, and filled the posi- 
tion of secretary-treasurer during the years 
1913-14. He derives great pleasure in at- 
tending the important race meetings held in 
New England, believing it the right wav to 
enjoy one's vacation. Mr. Harriman resides 
in Lvnn, ]\Iass. 



M. A. NEVENS 

M. A. Nevens became prominent in the 
horse world in 1887, when he was super- 
intendent of the Highland Mew Farm, Clare- 
mont, N. H., the property of William H. 
Moody. In the ten years that Mr. Nevens 
was at Highland View he had in his charge 
an average of one hundred horses, these in- 
cluding the stallions, brood mares and young 
stock. Here he raced and gave X. L., 



2:133-4, his record. Poor health forced 
Mr. Moody to dispose of his horses, and Mr. 
Xevens returned to Boston, purchasing an 
interest in the Priest stable in Northampton 
Street. Later he bought a boarding stable in 
Worcester Street, Boston. 

While connected with these stables Mr. 
Nevens joined the Dorchester and Metropoli- 
tan Clubs and was regular in attending the 
matinees of both organizations, his best known 
performers being The Private, 2:07 1-2, and 
Max G., 2:12 1-4. 

In 1905 Mr. Nevens became head trainer 
at The Pastures, Belfast, Me., owned by Hor- 
ace Chenery, and while there he developed and 
drove to their records, Edgemark Gift, 
2:241-4; Orta, 2:163-4; Junior Ward, 
2:21 1-4; Juannalita, 2:18; Marcel, 2:24 1-4; 
Stella Mack, 2:16 3-4, etc. 

Mr. Nevens, with the closing out of The 
Pastures, entered business in Brookline, hav- 
ing charge of the Jefferson Bradbury stable. 
In 1914 he raced at the Charles River Speed- 
way, with others, the trotting gelding, Ward 
M.. 2:091-4, for Bert W. Gove. Mr. Nev- 
ens resides at 56 Winchester Street, Brook- 
line, Mass. 



CHARLES SANDERS 

Charles Sander.s is known in the trotting 
horse world through his ownership of the 
champion trotting gelding. Uhlan, I :58, which 
he purchased for $2,500 from Arthur H. 
Parker and sold to C. K. G. Billings for $35.- 
000, the complete story of which is related on 
pages 12 1- 1 25, inclusive, in this volume. 

In New England horse circles, though, it 
did not require that Mr. Sanders own a Uhlan 
for him to be well known, for he had been 
one of the foremost horsemen, both in having 
record trotters and pacers for his own road 
driving, for professional racing, and later for 
amateur sport. For about fifty-five years Mr. 
Sanders has been identified with the light har- 
ness horse, and during this period he has 
never sold a good horse he owned, but they 
had a home so long as they lived and were 
then buried on the farm, some twenty record 
horses having been buried in the equine cem- 
etery. It was only that he knew the excellent 
home Uhlan would have with Mr. Billings 
that he parted with the champion. 

Back in the sixties Mr. Sanders raced the 
gelding. Bluejacket, and won a number of 
races, though his speed limit was about 2 :40, 
but he could keep at that gait all of the after- 
noon. A ])ole team which made a name for 
themselves by beating all they met on the road 
was Little Ethan, 2:19 1-4, and Don C, 
2:17 1-4. Little Thorne, 2:23 1-4; Minnie, 
2:29 1-4; Rex, 2:28 1-2; Grover T., 2:26 3-4; 
Enoch Arden, 2:24 1-2; Jewell, 2:24 3-4; 



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287 



Garrison, Jr., and Lady Alae were among 
the number Mr. Sanders used on the road, and 
in professional racing, in the days of the high- 
wheel sulky. 

With the organization of the Gentlemen's 
Driving Club of Boston, Mr. Sanders became 
one of the early members, and he was very 
prominent in the matinee racing at Readville. 
He was also one of the first to join the Met- 
ropolitan Driving Club. 

It was during the matinees at Readville that 
Mr. Sanders, with three members of the Bos- 
ton Club, each purchased a trotter and took 
turns in driving them, the horse and its driver 
being determined on race days by drawing lots. 
Through driving each of the horses faster than 
did any of the other three owners, Mr. San- 
ders demonstrated his skill as a reinsman. 
Others he raced in the matinees were Jesse 
H., 2:11 1-4; Silver Glow, 2:12 3-4; Pat My 
Boy, 2:18 1-4, and Uhleen, the last named a 
full sister of Uhlan. Jesse H. was raced as a 
pacer, but one week after he paced in 2:11 1-4, 
Mr. Sanders had shifted him to trotting and 
drove him a mile in 2:19 1-2. In the Fall of 
1914 he purchased from Benjamin Pope the 
promising weanling by Cochato, 2:11 1-2, 
out of the great brood mare, Aliss Pratt, 
2:17 1-4. Mr. Sanders resides at 43 Chest- 
nut Street, Salem. Mass. 



USE OF ROAD WAGON AT 
MATINEES DOOMED 

(By G. Pray Smith) 

I believe that the season of 1915 will wit- 
ness more amateur matinee racing in this coun- 
try than ever before, although for a number 
of years the sport has been gaining in favor if 
not by quite as rapid strides as of late. This 
increased interest in matinee racing I attrib- 
ute largely to the fact that with the practically 
universal use of the automobile pleasure rid- 
ing on the principal thoroughfares has 
ceased to be a pleasure, and those whose love 
for a hoTse will never die have turned, in con- 
sequence, to the speedways for their enjoy- 
ment. 

Boston has always been a center of matinee 
racing and, if I remember rightly, the Dorches- 
ter Driving Club was the first of its kind to 
be organized in this country for the purpose 
of promoting matinee racing. Locally the out- 
look is of the best for all of the numerous 
driving clubs, with every indication that there 
will be more matinee racing and more horses 
participating in 191 5 than during the very 
highly successful season just closed. The or- 
ganization in New York last November of the 
American Driving Club League will, I believe, 



help to add impetus to the racing game. Prac- 
tically all of the driving clubs are to become 
affiliated with the league, including those in 
Boston, and next Fall a series of club events, 
open to those horses of members of any of 
the affiliated clubs will be held over the his- 
toric Goshen track. Boston boasts of as good 
a collection of matinee horses as any city in 
the country, and I believe that those local 
road-drivers who enter their best horses for 
the Goshen meeting will demonstrate to the 
matinee w'orld at large that the Hub still 
stands high in this popular pastime. 

Several things have combined to place mat- 
inee racing where it is today and to make the 
outlook for the future so encouraging. One of 
these is the co-operation the horsemen have 
received from the municipal authorities. This 
has helped matinee racing, not only in Boston, 
but throughout the continent. Last Summer 
I attended some matinees of the San Francisco 
Driving Club held upon a three-quarter-mile 
track, built by the city, with a stadium seating 
6,000, also built by the city, at the finish of the 
course. In New York the city fathers have 
recognized matinee racing, and in many other 
places I might mention speedways have also 
been built. All these things are, of course, a 
positive benefit to the game. 

It is unnecessary for me to say that matinee 
racing furnishes diversion to a class of gen- 
tlemen who might, otherwise, keep too closely 
to their desks. They realize that fresh air and 
wholesome sport are to be derived from 
speeding a fast trotter or pacer. Also, matinee 
racing is not necessarily limited to men ot 
large wealth, although it does cost money to 
maintain a large matinee stable. But many a 
gentleman buying a horse, outclassed for rac- 
ing upon the tracks, for $300 or $400 finds his 
purchase able to beat horses that have cost 
several times that amount. It doesn't always 
follow that the highest-priced horses are the 
best in the matinees. That, of course, helps 
rather than hurts the game. More matinee 
horses are now available than ever before, be- 
cause the standard of racing in the Grand Cir- 
cuit is constantly becoming higher and the out- 
classed trotter has, as years go by, less and 
less chance to pav his expenses "down the big 
line." 

I think the coming season will see virtually 
the elimination of the road wagon in matinee 
racing. More and more drivers are coming to 
realize that the road cart, although perhaps 
not quite so elegant, is infinitely safer for 
speedway work than the road w-agon, and 
where matinees are held upon half-mile tracks 
it is next door to absolutely dangerous to 
attempt to use the delicately balanced road 
wagons. 



288 The Driving Clubs of Greater Boston 

$50,000 AMERICAN TROTTING HAD ANIMAL HOSPITAL 2,000 

DERBY AT READVILLE YEARS AGO 

IN IVOo One must go to the Orient and look back 

For reference is given the summary of '"°'''^ '''^" -'°°° >'^^''^ '° '^"^' *''^ <^"^ ^"''"''' 
the $50,000 American Trotting Derby, which hospital known. The famous Buddhist Em- 
was decided at the Readville track on Au- peror of India, Asoka, whose long reign 
gust 25, 1908. It was by far the largest from 264 to 227 B. C. abounded in many 
amount of money ever raced for in the his- good w^orks, was probably, the earliest to 
tory of the turf. One futurity of the running establish a hospital for the treatment of 
turf was supposed to have a bigger sum animals. Asoka was a true humanitarian as 
pending, but, when the forfeits were sub- well as a most powerful sovereio-n, and 
tracted from the gross sum, it left the net although ruling a vast domain, "became 
cash value of the event considerable less jgeplv impressed by the horrors of warfare, 
then the $;o,ooo involved in the American -u- ' i- j • r ^ a 
Trott' cr iS h ■ -v"ic.iv.ciu jjg gave up his desire for conquest and 

'"^ •■ the rock inscriptions, which are still extant 
Readville, Mass.. Aug. 25, 1908. — The American record such beneficent edicts of his as the 
Trotting Derby, purse $50,000. A handicap dash, counseling of planting shade-trees, the dig- 
open to all trotters; one mile and one-quarter ceeoo • f II 1- i f • • 
feet) to about one mile and one-third (7,100 feet) ; S^S _oi wells, sending out of missionaries, 
two trial heats; eight horses to qualify in each appointment of special officers to supervise 
for final heat; $30,000 to the winner. $10,000 to charities, the establishing of hospitals for 
second. $5,000 to third, $2,500 to fourth, $1,500 to , 1 • j 1 • 1 
fifth, $1,000 to sixth. humankind and animals. 

It is of interest to know that the last re- 

First Trial Heat maining of Asoka's hospitals was devoted to 

Bervaldo, b. g., by The Tramp (Rhodes). 6,850 ft. i animals. It covered twentv-five acres, and 

^TeLd!'ch' V"(S!Uo'°?t.''; ;:::::: .•.•.•;: ; I was divided into proper wards and courts for 

Composer, b. g. (Lasell), 6,650 ft 4 the accommodation of the patients. When 

Dewitt, b. g. (McDowell), 6,goo ft 5 an animal was sick or injured, its master had 

Locust Tack, g. g. (McHenrv), 6,000 ft 6 1 ^ i„ • -^ ^ ^i 1 -,.11 

Ralph Wick, b. g. (Dore). 6,650 ft 7 onl^ ^ bring it to the hospital, where it was 

Daniel, b. g. (Ernest), 6.850 ft 8 cared for without regard to the caste of its 

Tune — 2:463-4. owner, and where, if necessary, it found an 

Bononia, Suzette, Baron, Kinstress, Invader, Budd, isvlum in old a^e 

Uhlan, Genteel H.. and Margaret O. also started. ' • "^ ' 

Second Trial Heat 

Prince C. b. h., by Martyr (McHenry), 6,750 ft. I att CT-AD A/T \ T-T1VT1?T? CT-ATJT17 

The Huntsman, b. h. (Hussey). 6,800 ft 2 ALL-STAR MATINEE STABLE 

Allen Winter, b. h. (McDonald). 6,850 ft 3 

Peter Balta, br. g. (Snow), 6.750 ft 4 C. K. G. Billings unquestionably holds 

San Francisco, b. h. (Hodges), 6,800 ft 5 first place in that respect for his list of fast 

D^Tcorofadl'W.' ('b'^fee).- 6.000 -ft.; .•;.• i :: : 5 performers that he has raced in the matmees. 

Sweet Marie, b. m. (Andrews). 7,100 ft 8 which includes such trotters as Uhlan, 

Time— 2:52. 1:58; Lou Dillon, 1:581-2; Major Delmar, 

Rebecca G., Baron Alcyone. Betty Brook. Van- j .rg .... -phe Monk, 2:05 3-4; Prince of 

detta. Beatrice Bellini, Gold Burr. Fred C. and „-^^ /- t -n Z, ^~. r-i,„,i<>„ 

Wilkes Heart also started. Orange, 2:06 1-2 ; Lucille, 2:07; Charley 

]\Iack, 2:07 1-4; Fleming Boy, 2:07 1-4; 
Fin.il Heat Tempus Fugit, 2:071-2; Equity, 2:121-4; 
Allen Winter, b. h., by Ed Winter (McDonald), Clarita W., 2:09 3-4: Berta Mac, 2 :o8 ; Lou 
Prlfce £ b. h.' ■(McHenVy)," 6;750 'ft. ! i ■.•.;■. l! i! ! 2 Billings, 2 :o8 3-4 ; Delight, 2 :09 1-4 ; Alex- 
San Francisco, b. h. (Hodges), 6,800 ft 3 ander, 2:09 1-2, and Louise Jefferson, 

Ralph Wick, b g. (Dore), 6,650 ft 4 2:09 ^-4. While for pacers there comes to 

The Huntsman, b. h. (Hussev). 6,800 ft 5 ■ j t -^^i r> ^ ^ „. •di„„i,i 1. 

Peter Balta, br. g. (Snow), 6,-50 ft 6 '"'"d Little Boy, 2 :OI 1-2 ; Blacklock, 

Time— 2:46. 2 :02 3-4; Albert S., 2:03 3-4: Morning 

Teasel, Kim, Composer, Bervaldo, Jay Kay. De- Star, 2:04 I-4; Mazette, 2:04 I-4; Angus 

Witt, Locust. Jack Daniel, Del Coronado, and Sweet poi^ter 2 -OI V4 ; Fred S. Wedgewood, 

Mane also started. ' ".,^.^^_. ^- 

2:05 1-4; Prince Direct, 2:07; Hontas 

Note.-Purse divided : .\llen Winter $30,000. Prince Crooke, 2:07 1-2; Home Circle, 2:07 1-2, 

C. $10,000, San Francisco $5,000, Ralph Wick $2,500. , /- ,- 

The Huntsman $1,500, Peter Balta $1,000. and Greenlme, 2 :o7 3-4. 



Contents 



Page 
A Dead Game Sport Ruins a Brilliant Racing 

Prospect 1 65 

A Reminder of the Days When the Pool Box 

Told the Odds (By Everett L. "Percy" 

Smith) 153 

Alfred King: (2), 2:28 1-4 246 

Allen Farm, The 212 

Allen, Wm. Russell 209, 212 

Alley, Arthur H 58, 198 

All-star Matinee Stable 288 

Amateur Driver in His First Professional Race 

— Trouble A-plenty 163 

Amateur Racing Creates Big Demand for Our 

Outclassed Trotters (By Harry K. Dever- 

eux) 181 

American Trotting Derby for $50,000 288 

Anaconda. 2:013-4 242 

Anderson, 1. R 86 

Angus Pointer Well Crowned "King of All 

Pacers" 141 

Annie M 259 

Argot Lad, 2:17 1-2 72 

Austin, Charles E 193, 194 

Babbitt, Dr. F. J 99 

Baron Patch, 2:18 3-4 30 

Baroness Tell 269 

Belledeu, Charles H 33, 139, 195, 196 

Bellows, Fred H S3, 282 

Benjamin, 2:26 1-4 86 

Bessie Wilkes 94 

Betty Fennell 265 

Big Interclub Meets 105 

Biggs, David M 259, 262 

Biggs, J. W 259 

Billie Taylor 229 

Billy Wilkes, 2:18 1-2 108 

Biographies and Portraits of Driving Club ilem- 

bers and Prominent Horsemen of New En.g- 

land 189-28T 

Bither, Edwin D 147, 148 

Blanche Wilkes 269 

Bonner, Robert 184 

Border W 93 

Boston Blue Was First Trotter to Beat Three 

Minutes (By the Veteran) 179 

Bowen, J. J., "Uncle Jock" 134 

Brackett, Herbert A 91, 284 

Bradbury, Jefferson 221, 230 

Brady. Edward 93 

Brand, Fred J 12 

Bray, Elmer E 101 

Briggs. Alden ■ 269, 270 

Bronson, 2:12 57 

Brooks, James I 61, 280 

Brown, Samuel G 103, 284 

Budweiser, 2:18 1-4 28, 163 

Burke, Frank M 227, 228 

Burns, John H 257 

Burns, Joseph W 251, 258 

Burress, Henry W 209, 214 

Campbell, James 255, 260 

Carpenter, Jimmie 129 

Cascade, 2:06 1-2 247 

Castle Todd 55 

Cawley, John AV 239, 243 

C. E. R., 2:21 1-4 257 



Cliadbourne, John B 270, 

Charles, O. C 26, 

Charley King, 2:14 1-4 113, 

Chief Wilkie, 2:12 3-4 

Chimes Bell, 2:09 3-4 

Churchill, Fred 94, 

Coakley, John W 223, 

Cobb, Bradford R 72, 

Codare 

Cogswell. Edward E 

Collin.':, Royce E 261, 

Combination Park, Medford 

Cowdrey, George A 90, 

Co.\-, Walter R.. "Long Shot" 

Coyle, George X 70. 

Crosby, Riley G 23, 29, 176, 

Curley, Hon. J. M 

Curta. 2:13 1-4 

D'Arcy, G. W 

Davis, A. W 

Davis, G. L 

Davis, George M 72, 

Dean Swift, 2:121-4 

Dehesia, 2:23 1-4 

Demarest. 2:061-4 

Dignity 

Dimple 

Directum Regent, 2:09 1-4 

Doctor 

Don Labor, 2:05 1-4 

Dorchester Club, History of 

Members at Lynn Interclub Meet 

Prize Winners, 1914 

Winner of Interclub Meet 

Dot and Addle Echo 

Drinkwater, Col. .\. C 76, 

Dunn, John F 255, 

Duntley. Wilbur L 152, 

Earl King 

Early Bird, Jr., 2:111-2 

Ecce Volo, 2:29 1-4 

Eddy, Jesse 56, 

Edes, E. L 

E. D. M., 2:14 1-4 

Edith Direct, 2:11 3-4 

Edith R., 2:18 1-4 

Edwards, Justin 193, 

Eldredge, Fred S 30, 

Ellis, John W 199. 

Emerson, William H 203. 

Equine Portrait Painters Who Have Won 

Fame (By Everett L. "Percy" Smith) 

Ethel's Pride, 2:06 3-4 

Facts and Anecdotes of Prominent Events of 

the Turf 

Famous Road Drivers Whose Horses Were Kept 

at Sawyer's Stable 

Fancy P. and Charm P 

Fanny M., 2:24 1-4 

Farmer, Walter B 217, 

Farnum, Earl W 237, 

Farnum, John H 217, 

Fellows, Albert 265, 

Fellsway Club. History of 

Lose Interclub Meet to Kenoza Club 

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First Horse Show Was Held in Springfield, Mass. 188 

Fitzgerald, Hon. J. F 18, 20 

Fitzgerald, James E 213, 254 

Fitzgerald, Peter J 253, 271 

Forshner, Knapp 239, 24i. 

Frank Howe Kids Engli.<iliman 187 

Frantell 246 

FuUam, Henry H 104, 278 

Furbush, A. C 227, 228 

Fiirbush. Almon J 197, 200 

Furbush, W. J 106, 244 

Gallup, Hollis P 27, 278 

Garmon, Fred C 43, 203, 206 

General, 2:311-4 110 

George M., 2 :14 1-4 26 

George N 203 

George AV 86 

Gilman, .John L 47, 236 

Glenard, 2:15 1-4 223 

Gloria AVilkes (matinee record) 2:18 1-4 235 

Goodspeed, Monroe 205, 210 

Gove, Bert W 197, 200 

Grace B 259 

Graves, George A 57, 230 

Gray, Herbert 267, 278 

Greenwood. George H 249, 268 

Griffin, George E 249, 258 

Griffin, Thomas J 246, 247, 256 

Gushee, A. S 14 

Haddock. Edgar 271 

Had Animal Hospital 2.000 Years Ago 288 

Hall, Frank Gardner 235, 250 

Hall, George G 234, 250 

Hall, George Robinson 235, 250 

Hamburg Belle, 2:011-4 124 

"Happy Jack" Trout i.s Mine Host to Members 

of Metropolitan Club 146 

Harriman, J. Maro 104. 286 

Harris, Ezra S 271 

Hastings, Sam B 56, 243 

Healy, Martin J 267. 268 

He Made Two Men Speak 187 

Hector K., 2:29 1-4 94 

Hewitt, Miss Naomi 231 

Hicks, George H 222. 231 

High Roller and High Lady 233 

Hillanddale Farm, The 190, 191, 192 

Hollis Eingen 27 

Holmes, Daniel H 217, 220 

Horses Enjoy Human Companionship 156 

How "Long Shot" Cox "Worked from Bush Rings 

to Star Grand Circuit Driver 144 

How the Champions Passed the Last Years of 

Their I,ife (By Charles T. Harris) 166 

How the Fastest Piece of Racing Dirt in This 

Country Was Secured 161 

How Major Delmar Won the Massachusetts 

Stake (By Charles M. Jewett) 157 

Incidents in Eventful Career of Noted Driver, 

Dan Mace (By James O'Neill) 172 

Inside Facts About the Charley Herr-C'resceus 

Race (By Charles M. Jewett) 158 

Jack Bingen, 2:22 1-4 29 

Jewett, Charles M 157 

Jewett, John H 237 

Jimmie Carpenter Sits in a "Gentleman's" Game 

of Poker, and What Happened 129 

John Shepard Tells of Racing to Sleigh on the 

Mill Dam and Beacon Street 177 

Johnson, A. M 19. 21. 272 

Johnson, John M 205. 208 

Judges Help Scott Hudson Recover Trotter 

Stolen from His Stable (By Charles M. 

Jewett) 160 

Kaldar, 2:17 1-4 83 

Katherine K., 2:113-4 84 



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Keith, Carey 271 

Kentucky Star, 2:08 1-2 139 

King, A. G 207 

LaBoudie, 2:10 54 

La Croix, William 97 

Ladies' Auxiliary of Fellsway Club 69 

Ladies' Auxiliary of Metropolitan Club 50 

Group Picture of 51 

Lady Belle 71 

Lady Hilton 207 

Lady Madison. 2:20 1-4 253 

Law, George A 65. 68, 273 

Leavitt, George W 125, 126 

Leonard, George F 58, 232 

Lexington, Mass.. First to Have a Driving Club 137 

Lina Prue (matinee record), 2:18 1-4 231 

Llnnehan, J. W 17, 28 

Linscott. Grin E 71. 274 

Lister V/. (3), 2:25 1-4 253 

Lockwood, C. M 70, 274 

Lottie Fallis, 2:20 1-4 58 

Lord, Levi S 110, 284 

Louise E.. 2:10 3-4 203, 204 

Lovell, George 219, 222 

Lovell, W. J 283 

Lynch, James F 257, 262 

Lyndhurst 272 

Lynn Driving Club, History of 95 

Mace, Dan 173 

Mademoiselle 229 

MacDonald, Calvin 253, 258 

Macleod, John N 193, 194 

Macomber, J. C 261 

Major Delmar, 1:59 3-4 158 

Martha G., 1:00 3-4 199 

Mary Ann and Foal 259 

Mary B 259 

Mary Mc , 28 

Mayberry, C. C 56, 238 

McDermott, Michael 28, 280 

McDonald, W. J 52. 53, 54, 55, 206 

McEnany, J. W 30, 273 

Mendell, 2:21 55 

Metropolitan Clubhouse 37 

Metropolitan Club, History of 31 

Stable 48 

Winner of Big Interclub Meet 113 

Metropolitan vs. Concord, N. H., Club Meet.... 107 

Miller. Henry P 81, 282 

Miss Adbell, 2:06 1-4 32, 54 

Miss De Forest, 2:05 1-4 227 

Miss Pratt, 2:17 1-4 229 

Miss Zombro 199 

M'lle Silver 207 

Molly L., 2:25 1-4 219 

Morrison, Frank E 70. 274 

Morrison, Hugh J 72, 274 

Morse. Eugene S 108, 248 

Murphy. Miss Mary 233 

Murphy, M. F 233, 252 

National Trotting Association 156 

Nelson, A. 1 221, 224 

Nevens, M. A 108, 286 

Newbert, A. M 2 71 

Newbert. W. E 16 

Nichols, W. H 94, 271 

Norton, George W 56, 24 3 

Noyes, William H 269, 270 

Nut Boy, 2:07 1-4 26 

Nut Boy Fooled the Talent When He Won the 

Classic Transylvania Stake 140 

O'Connell, Jos. F 249 

O'Hearn. P 26. 249 

O'Neil, William 13' 

Old Colony Club, History of 73 

Old-Time Race Tracks in Greater Boston 131 



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Orale, 2:17 1-2 55 

Pacer,, in Outlandish Rig, Winner of Race .... 186 

Paine. Daniel 64 

Parker, Arthur H 120-125 

Parlin, Simon W 209, 214 

Pedrick, Lincoln 269, 270 

Pete Supposed to Have a Cincli, But Buck 

Dickerson Won the Race (By J. B.) 183 

Phoebon W., 2:08 3-4 106 

Phillips, Eben B 102. 277 

Picture Hat 106 

Playdon, Dr. C. H 92 

Pope. Benjamin 228, 229 

Pope. Miss Margaret Winslow 229 

Postman, 2:13 3-4 269 

Power, Arthur L 193, 194 

Power, Edgar F 213, 218 

Prize Winning Four-in-Hand 221 

Proctor, Robert C 122. 124, 125 

Quannapowitt Club, History ot 87 

Quilberta (2), 2:29 3-4 155 

Quimby. T. Lee 138. 244 

Racing Only for the Pleasure and Sport to be 

Obtained 149 

Radical Changes in Care of Race Horses in 

Pa.st Ten Years 185 

Ralph Bingen 251 

Ralph Wick, 2:13 1-4 18, 21 

Ralston. Hance B 223. 224 

Reading-Wakefield Track 88 

Reay, John 201. 202 

Reed, George 84 

Reed, Josiah B 84, 252 

Rex 265 

Rice, Edwin B 241, 254 

Richardson, J. Henry 215, 218 

Rob B 108 

Robbins, Frank L 271 

Robert Bonner Made it Popular for Gentlemen 

to Own a Trotter 184 

Rockdale Park, Peabody 96 

Rose Bingen 213 

Royal Charlie 233 

Russell, Harry J 106, 245 

Ruth D., 2:06 1-4 32 

Sanborn. L. Fred 225, 226 

Sanders, Charles 121. 285. 286 

Shannon. Edwin M 261, 266 

Sharpneck, E. L 239, 240 

Shepard, John 177 

Shying in Horses and the Best Way to Remedy 

Fault <By Trainer) 180 

Sister Patch, 2:26 1-4 29, 263 

Smith, Ernest C 207, 214 

Smith, Mrs. E. C 207 

Smith. Everett L., "Percy" 150, 245 

Smith, G. Pray 46. 198. 287 

South Weymouth Track 74 

Speedway. Charles River 32 

Speedway. Franklin Field 6 

Dedication of 18 



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Spencer. C. S 198 

Spim, 2:15 1-4 211 

Sproul, Matthew C 83. 275 

Starratt, Charles N 269 

Steele, J. Vernon 205, 214 

Sterling. Lyle 261, 264 

Stetson, Rector Damon 85, 276 

Stuart, J. Rollin, Jr 263, 268 

Sunshine, 2:15 1-4 257, 269 

Susie F.. 2:20 1-4 263 

Swett, Edward B 271 

Thayer, Harry C 80, 84, 275 

The Abbott, 2:03 1-4, Carved on Scannell Monu- 
ment 186 

The Counsellor, 2:17 1-4 55 

The Montana, 2:18 1-2 221 

The Old Story — "The Best Colt the Mare Ever 

Foaled" (By Everett L. "Percy" Smith).... 155 

Thistle 283 

Thompson, Dr. Charles A 211, 216 

Thompson, Dr. Joseph Douglas 211, 216 

Thompson, Robert E 205. 210 

Thorndale Stock Farm. The 215 

Tom SmelKey. 2:18 1-2 92 

Totman, J. W 83 

Totman, S. B 83. 276 

Trainer E. D. Either Who Made Three World's 

Champions 147 

Trixie S.. 2:14 1-2 85 

Trott. Frank G 236, 237 

Trott, Lemuel G 237, 238 

Trout. John 146 

Twombly, C. E 71. 281 

"Uncle Jock" Bowen Had a Turf Career Filled 

with Adventure 134 

Uhlan. 1:58 124 

Uhlan, tlie "World's Champion Trotter, His 

Breeder and His Trainer 121. 123 

Use of Road W'agon at Matinees Doomed (By 

G. Pray Smith) 287 

Vernag. 2:21 1-2 213 

Wales. S. Walter 10 

War Cost $305,000 Horse Deal 183 

Ward M.. 2:09 1-4 197 

Ward. Rowland 252 

Well-Bred Horse with Quality and Soundness 

is Best for Business (By Henry C. Merwin) 175 

■O'ells, Charles D 93, 267, 268 

Wetmore. V. C. Bruce 199, 202 

Weymouth. Henry W 92, 277 

Wheelock. Adna T 113. 271, 279 

Whitaker. Lewis 136. 245 

Whitcomb, Frank L 190-192 

Whitman, E. R 70, 281 

Wilkins, Frank 1 255, 262 

Williamson. George H 86, 276 

Wolfson, Solly 271 

Woodard, .\lden H 255, 260 

Wright, William 155 

Young, C. L 9 

Y'oung, James F 79, 282 

Young, William H 29, 263, 266 



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